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Redware flask or handwarmer; perfectly round shape like a flattened ball; corked hole at top side. Covered with a brown glaze.
flasks (bottles)
glazing (coating)
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Redware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Flask, Pocket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
991.386
Unknown
4 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.386
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