The milk pan was made by potter, Morgan Jones, in Westmoreland County, Virginia ca. 1669 - 1681. The milk pan is currently on display at the Westmoreland County Museum and Library as part of an exhibition entitled "17th Century Potter Morgan Jones: Connecting the Pieces." The exhibition, which runs through September 1, 2001, showcases the excavation of the Westmoreland County kiln site where the largest find to date of colonial-era shards in Virginia has been discovered. The exhibition displays Jones's pottery wares found at the excavation site, and compares them to his other works found in the county. Morgan Jones's kiln, operational in 1677 at what is now the Glebe Harbor housing development near the Potomac River, provided utilitarian pottery to settlers in the Chesapeake Bay area. The kiln site, excavated in 1973, is the earliest documented Virginia pottery site, and the only kiln of this design yet found in North America. In addition, the kiln has yielded the largest cache of pottery shards in Virginia to date.

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