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3 pieces: A - Pot, B - Lid, C - Insert; hexagonal, reddish-brown stoneware, impressed geometric pattern to sides within border; containing cylindrical insert with concave lid; missing handle.
hot water urns
impressing
stoneware (pottery)
Chinese export
Stoneware
Impressed
China Trade
POT, HOT-WATER
1) Paper labels on bottom underside: ""N. F. Little"" and ""Chinese stone/ware from/estate Capt./Oliver Lane,/Annisquam / 1825-1850"". 2) Note (now in accession file:) ""Chinese warming pot, Yi-hsing / (Lane) circa 1830"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.190
Unknown
4 1/2 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.190A-C
East Asia (Asia) [general region]
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