Creamware cheap, good-quality, mass-produced creamware to Europe had a similar impact on Continental tin-glazed faience factories. By the 1780s Josiah Wedgwood was exporting as much as 80% of his output to Europe. Creamware is made from white clays from Dorset and Devonshire combined with an amount of calcined flint. This body is the same as that used for salt-glazed stoneware, but it is fired to a lower temperature (around 800 °C as opposed to 1,100 to 1,200 °C) and glazed with lead to form a cream-coloured earthenware. The white clays ensured a fine body and the addition of flint improved its
Goshogawara Sue Pottery Kiln Site Sue pottery was produced, marking it as the northernmost known site at which this type of pottery was produced. The pottery produced from the site has been found in Akita, Iwate and Hokkaidō, indicating ongoing trade across the Tsugaru Strait from the earliest times. Goshogawara Sue Pottery Kiln Site The location of the site is approximately 15 kilometers southeast of the center of present-day Goshogawara, on a small hill on a tributary of the Maedano River. There are 40 kilns at the site, 13 of which are in good preservation and which qualified for protection as a National Historic Site.