Moravian pottery, originating in the Winston-Salem area, typically has a lower iron content than some of the other styles, so the products typically have a buff color. Moravian potters, of German descent, made jugs, bottles, mugs, plates, lamps, flowerpots and cooking utensils out of local clay and lined with a pale slip under a clear glaze. Pottery was typically thrown on a kick wheel, but some pieces (tobacco pipes, stove tiles and plates) were press-molded. Pieces were decorated with an abstract or geometrical pattern and colored with copper, iron or manganese oxides.

Earthenware
Earthenware is produced from an ocher-colored surface clay containing considerable quantities of iron and other impurities and fired to 1800F degrees. It was the predominant form of pottery in North Carolina until the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Until lead was discovered to be poisoning the colonists, potters coated their wares with a lead glaze.

Sources:
Zug, Charles III. Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986.
Cameron, Elisabeth. Encyclopedia of Pottery & Porcelain: 1800-1960. New York: Cameron Books, 1986

Moravian - Raku