Small, barrel-shaped with outflared collar and fitted lid with large knop. Shoulder-to-body handle and two incised bands near top. Covered with mottled green, yellow and orange/brown glaze. Lid more brown.
jars
covers (closures)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Jar, Food-storage
Handwritten paper label on bottom underside: My/Grandmother/Libby Kept Cloves/in this Antique Jug/for over 50 years/It is very old Incised in clay at underside of lid: 23
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.703A,B
Unknown
New England
4 1/2 x 4 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.703AB
image of dresser; object first shelf third from right
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