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A pipkin is an earthenware cooking pot used for cooking over direct heat from coals or a wood fire. They were not held in direct flame which would crack the ceramic. It has a handle and many (though not all) examples had three feet. Late medieval and post-medieval pipkins had a hollow handle into which a stick might be inserted for manipulation. Examples exist unglazed, fully glazed, and glazed only on the interior.
While often spheroidal, they were made with straight outwardly-sloping sides.{{cite web|title=Pipkin, Place of origin: England (made) Hampshire (possibly, made) Date: ca. 1500-1600 (made)|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148552/pipkin-unknown/|website=V&A|publisher=Victoria & Albert Museum, London|accessdate=19 February 2017}} They were occasionally made with lids or pouring spouts.
Heraldry
The pipkin, also called a three-legged pot (marmite (fr.), Grapen (ger.)), is sometimes used as a charge in heraldry. It is especially common in arms in Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia.
It is used in the canting arms for the German families von Grape,Gert Oswald: Lexikon der Heraldik. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984. Grapengießer and Grappendorf, and Groppe von Gudenberg.
File:DEU Estorf (Landkreis Stade) COA.svg|Estorf (Landkreis Stade)
File:Wappen_Gehlenbeck.gif|Gehlenbeck
File:DEU SG Wathlingen COA.png|Samtgemeinde Wathlingen
File:DEU Wathlingen COA.svg|Wathlingen
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-UTENSILS/pottery-cookng-msg.rtf Do's and don'ts of cooking over a fire]
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