Potter’s profiling tool - 1765
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Potter’s profiling tool
© Wedgwood Museum
Made from local light brown clay, glazed. This profile was used to form the inside shape of an object whilst on a wheel or a jolley.
Many processes are involved in the production of pottery, and often during these processes potters’ tools are used to create specific shapes and forms. One such tool is the profile, used to ensure that wheel-thrown pieces are regular in shape. As each potter has a unique way of working often a potter would evolve his own, especially crafted, ceramic profile. Occasionally potter’s tools were ‘personalised’ by an inscription.
- Type of object: Useful ware/tool
- Mark: Cornelius Toft (Inscribed)
- Year first produced: 1765
- Body: Queen's ware and cream-coloured earthenware
- Glaze: White
- Material: Ceramic
- Accession number: 11470
- Dimensions: 100 mm (length), 750 mm (width), 7 mm (height)
