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1800-1850
GUSN-11367
Wide, circular straight-sided mouth that narrows to the neck on an ovoid body; two applied handles at the shoulders; brown and black splotches under a warm yellow-brown glaze.
jugs (vessels)
glazing (coating)
redware
lead glaze
Redware
Lead Glazed
Jug
On a paper label inscribed in ink on the jug's bottom in NFL's handwriting is: Said to be/Hartford/Conn.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 1/2 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1701
Connecticut (United States)
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