Description:Throwing rib made of slate.
A pottery-making tool used for smoothing the outside shape of a pot while it is being thrown.
The thumb hole aids use. Ribs are usually made from pottery, metal or slate and would normally be made by the thrower for his own use.
They are believed to be called ribs because they were originally made
from animal's ribs.
Roughly 8cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.