Redware, of globular shape with chunky strasp handle starting from narrow neck; covered overall with an olive green and brown-spotted glaze; three incised bands near top. (Currently wired as an electric lamp, with small off-white shade).
electric lamps (lighting device forms)
jugs (vessels)
cookware
incising
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Lead Glazed
Lamp, Electric
NFL paper label on bottom underside: ""Pr. jugs found / under an / old house in / Templeton, Mass.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 x 6 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.281
Title Redware Jug/ Lamp Accession Number 1991.1385
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