Redware tankard of small size, with out-tapered sides and a tool line below the top rim. It has a strap handle and is covered overall with a very dark brown lead glaze.
tankards
redware
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Tankard
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
rea
Unknown
3 5/8 x 2 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.730
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