Lindsay Bloch
@lindsaybloch.bsky.social
Archaeologist, v. old pottery, v. good dogs, ceramic-themed nail art, historic buttons. ig:maniarchaeology. She/her 🇵🇸
https://temperedarchaeology.com/
https://temperedarchaeology.com/
Back to basics #maniarchaeology today. Maybe the most common ironstone pattern, this simple sprig motif in copper luster is called Tea Leaf, produced throughout 2nd half of the 19th century by many different makers.
Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park
Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Back to basics #maniarchaeology today. Maybe the most common ironstone pattern, this simple sprig motif in copper luster is called Tea Leaf, produced throughout 2nd half of the 19th century by many different makers.
Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park
Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park
New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London.
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology
September 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London.
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology
🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast"
We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.
What assemblages should we zap next?
Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology
We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.
What assemblages should we zap next?
Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology
July 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast"
We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.
What assemblages should we zap next?
Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology
We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.
What assemblages should we zap next?
Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology
🏺 New #maniarchaeology inspired by 2 of my favorite things: porcelain and buttons! Prosser-molded porcelain buttons were made post-1840 and are very common archaeologically. However, the original transfer-printed designs on some of them, known as "calicos" are often worn away.
April 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
🏺 New #maniarchaeology inspired by 2 of my favorite things: porcelain and buttons! Prosser-molded porcelain buttons were made post-1840 and are very common archaeologically. However, the original transfer-printed designs on some of them, known as "calicos" are often worn away.
I've been busy restocking button boxes for the Society for American Archaeology meeting in a few weeks. Order online or visit my booth in Denver--I'll have special à la carte buttons for sale there too 🙂 The shop will be closing for the summer, so now is your chance!
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
April 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I've been busy restocking button boxes for the Society for American Archaeology meeting in a few weeks. Order online or visit my booth in Denver--I'll have special à la carte buttons for sale there too 🙂 The shop will be closing for the summer, so now is your chance!
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.
March 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.
🏺 And that little girl went on to learn French and become an archaeologist, both of which would change her interpretation of the museum 😂.
Can you fault my logic though?
#archaeosky
Can you fault my logic though?
#archaeosky
March 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🏺 And that little girl went on to learn French and become an archaeologist, both of which would change her interpretation of the museum 😂.
Can you fault my logic though?
#archaeosky
Can you fault my logic though?
#archaeosky
💅 Though sometimes called Gaudy Welsh or Gaudy Dutch, this mid-19th c. British earthenware was actually influenced by Japanese Imari porcelain. Love the color palette and showy florals. This example is ironstone, but other refined EWs and European porcelains may have this design.
#maniarchaeology
#maniarchaeology
March 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
💅 Though sometimes called Gaudy Welsh or Gaudy Dutch, this mid-19th c. British earthenware was actually influenced by Japanese Imari porcelain. Love the color palette and showy florals. This example is ironstone, but other refined EWs and European porcelains may have this design.
#maniarchaeology
#maniarchaeology
New year, new 💅! This time, Jackfield-type, an 18th c. earthenware used primarily to make fine teawares like this gorgeous gilded coffeepot. Archaeologically we rarely find the gilt, in part b/c it wears away.
January 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
New year, new 💅! This time, Jackfield-type, an 18th c. earthenware used primarily to make fine teawares like this gorgeous gilded coffeepot. Archaeologically we rarely find the gilt, in part b/c it wears away.
Starting tomorrow, come visit me in the book room at the SHAs New Orleans! I have historic buttons and want to show them to you 😁 temperedarchaeology.com/buttons/
January 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Starting tomorrow, come visit me in the book room at the SHAs New Orleans! I have historic buttons and want to show them to you 😁 temperedarchaeology.com/buttons/
Treat yourself or your favorite lab, classroom, or museum to the brand new Historic Button Type Collection!
Learn to identify old and/or archaeological buttons using real antique examples. High resolution photos, dating info, and key diagnostics all in one place!
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
Learn to identify old and/or archaeological buttons using real antique examples. High resolution photos, dating info, and key diagnostics all in one place!
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
November 26, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Treat yourself or your favorite lab, classroom, or museum to the brand new Historic Button Type Collection!
Learn to identify old and/or archaeological buttons using real antique examples. High resolution photos, dating info, and key diagnostics all in one place!
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
Learn to identify old and/or archaeological buttons using real antique examples. High resolution photos, dating info, and key diagnostics all in one place!
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
🏺 💅 Can anyone identify what I was going for with today's #maniarchaeology?
It's white salt glazed stoneware (British, mid-18th C.) with the dot-diaper-basketweave molded edge. As always, the texture is super tricky to achieve on nails, but improving!
Archy example courtesy Mount Vernon via DAACS
It's white salt glazed stoneware (British, mid-18th C.) with the dot-diaper-basketweave molded edge. As always, the texture is super tricky to achieve on nails, but improving!
Archy example courtesy Mount Vernon via DAACS
November 24, 2024 at 11:24 PM
🏺 💅 Can anyone identify what I was going for with today's #maniarchaeology?
It's white salt glazed stoneware (British, mid-18th C.) with the dot-diaper-basketweave molded edge. As always, the texture is super tricky to achieve on nails, but improving!
Archy example courtesy Mount Vernon via DAACS
It's white salt glazed stoneware (British, mid-18th C.) with the dot-diaper-basketweave molded edge. As always, the texture is super tricky to achieve on nails, but improving!
Archy example courtesy Mount Vernon via DAACS
💅 🏺Back to a classic: shell-edged pearlware. Typically the painted and molded edge was the only decoration, but the Mared pattern by Wedgwood included this delicate neoclassical band. Rarely found archaeologically, this platter was recovered in Jamaica.
#maniarchaeology
#maniarchaeology
September 16, 2024 at 2:30 AM
💅 🏺Back to a classic: shell-edged pearlware. Typically the painted and molded edge was the only decoration, but the Mared pattern by Wedgwood included this delicate neoclassical band. Rarely found archaeologically, this platter was recovered in Jamaica.
#maniarchaeology
#maniarchaeology
💅🏺Cheery Canary Ware on this sunny day! A late 18th-mid 19th C. refined earthenware made in Britain and France. The brilliant yellow comes from antimony added to the lead glaze 🥴. Canary Ware was often made for children’s dishes and whimsical items, such as this French transfer-printed plate.
July 1, 2024 at 1:21 AM
💅🏺Cheery Canary Ware on this sunny day! A late 18th-mid 19th C. refined earthenware made in Britain and France. The brilliant yellow comes from antimony added to the lead glaze 🥴. Canary Ware was often made for children’s dishes and whimsical items, such as this French transfer-printed plate.
Briefly in mid-1700s, English potters made realistic forms such as 🍍 coffeepots, and 🍉 tureens (image Bonhams). From its N. African origins, 🍉 has become an impt. global food and symbol.
It's been 8 months with no end in sight. Donate (links below) to feed 🇵🇸, and keep demanding a #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
It's been 8 months with no end in sight. Donate (links below) to feed 🇵🇸, and keep demanding a #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
May 28, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Briefly in mid-1700s, English potters made realistic forms such as 🍍 coffeepots, and 🍉 tureens (image Bonhams). From its N. African origins, 🍉 has become an impt. global food and symbol.
It's been 8 months with no end in sight. Donate (links below) to feed 🇵🇸, and keep demanding a #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
It's been 8 months with no end in sight. Donate (links below) to feed 🇵🇸, and keep demanding a #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The little rust spots may have been bright cut steel decoration, rather than pins for attachment. It looks sort of like spot on the left was faceted. Still doesn't explain what it was originally part of.
April 8, 2024 at 3:41 PM
The little rust spots may have been bright cut steel decoration, rather than pins for attachment. It looks sort of like spot on the left was faceted. Still doesn't explain what it was originally part of.
Most of the historic ceramics that I've copied have a surface design. 18th C. British agateware is different, made of two clays wedged together. During the trimming process the marbling is revealed. I love how this one turned out! Sherds were recovered in St. Augustine, Florida .
#maniarchaeology 🏺
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March 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Most of the historic ceramics that I've copied have a surface design. 18th C. British agateware is different, made of two clays wedged together. During the trimming process the marbling is revealed. I love how this one turned out! Sherds were recovered in St. Augustine, Florida .
#maniarchaeology 🏺
#maniarchaeology 🏺
Victorian Majolica #maniarchaeology 💅
Molded natural motifs with flowing underglaze painting, it's another one of those *pretty* ugly historic pottery types. Replicating molded designs with polish--still hard!
more info from MAC Lab: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/P...
Molded natural motifs with flowing underglaze painting, it's another one of those *pretty* ugly historic pottery types. Replicating molded designs with polish--still hard!
more info from MAC Lab: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/P...
January 9, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Victorian Majolica #maniarchaeology 💅
Molded natural motifs with flowing underglaze painting, it's another one of those *pretty* ugly historic pottery types. Replicating molded designs with polish--still hard!
more info from MAC Lab: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/P...
Molded natural motifs with flowing underglaze painting, it's another one of those *pretty* ugly historic pottery types. Replicating molded designs with polish--still hard!
more info from MAC Lab: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/P...
Sassy sent out a totally normal and not bumming holiday greeting to UF staff today
December 15, 2023 at 11:49 PM
Sassy sent out a totally normal and not bumming holiday greeting to UF staff today
💅 💐 In US, we assume this kind of hand-painted and sponged whiteware from mid-19th to early 20th C. is British, but it was also very popular with the Dutch!
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December 3, 2023 at 6:01 PM
💅 💐 In US, we assume this kind of hand-painted and sponged whiteware from mid-19th to early 20th C. is British, but it was also very popular with the Dutch!
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🏺 Interested in pottery, Amazonia, or the Caribbean? Join DAACS Friday, Nov. 3, 12 pm ET for a talk by Irene Meulenberg, “Indigenous Pottery in Suriname: Status Quo and Challenges.”
Register: bit.ly/3tX5N14
Register: bit.ly/3tX5N14
November 1, 2023 at 4:38 PM
🏺 Interested in pottery, Amazonia, or the Caribbean? Join DAACS Friday, Nov. 3, 12 pm ET for a talk by Irene Meulenberg, “Indigenous Pottery in Suriname: Status Quo and Challenges.”
Register: bit.ly/3tX5N14
Register: bit.ly/3tX5N14
🏺At SEAC meeting in Chattanooga, celebrating plant domestication in the Eastern Woodlands ca. 1800 BCE, aka, the "Eastern Agricultural Complex."
Sunflower, cucurbits, and chenopodium, and of course there is basketry to store it in! Moon Pie for scale. #archaeology #SEAC2023
Sunflower, cucurbits, and chenopodium, and of course there is basketry to store it in! Moon Pie for scale. #archaeology #SEAC2023
October 27, 2023 at 1:47 AM
🏺At SEAC meeting in Chattanooga, celebrating plant domestication in the Eastern Woodlands ca. 1800 BCE, aka, the "Eastern Agricultural Complex."
Sunflower, cucurbits, and chenopodium, and of course there is basketry to store it in! Moon Pie for scale. #archaeology #SEAC2023
Sunflower, cucurbits, and chenopodium, and of course there is basketry to store it in! Moon Pie for scale. #archaeology #SEAC2023
Join DAACS tomorrow, Fri, Oct 20, at 12pm ET, for Dr. Cheryl White's talk "Looking for the African Diaspora Past". Cheryl is a professor at the Anton De Kom Universiteit and her talk is part of a DAACS Conversation Series on archaeological research in Suriname. Register here: bit.ly/3LLwwDB
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October 19, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Join DAACS tomorrow, Fri, Oct 20, at 12pm ET, for Dr. Cheryl White's talk "Looking for the African Diaspora Past". Cheryl is a professor at the Anton De Kom Universiteit and her talk is part of a DAACS Conversation Series on archaeological research in Suriname. Register here: bit.ly/3LLwwDB
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Every archaeologist's dream is to use the gley page in the Munsell book, right? Right?!
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October 6, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Every archaeologist's dream is to use the gley page in the Munsell book, right? Right?!
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