fbpx

Food storage jar

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-193860

Description

Cylindrical ceramic jar with lid, pale green glaze. Jar [a] has caved scroll and floral designs on body. Lid [b] has flat circular finial. Nannie Borden Phillips butterfly mark on bottom.

Details

Descriptive Terms

jars
cookware
clay
Jar, Food-storage

Inscription

Butterfly shaped mark (Butterfly with small head, one antennae, diamond shaped wings, fish shaped body)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Maker)

Dimensions

4 1/4 (H), 3 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1744AB

Reparative Language in Collections Records

Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].