Redware mug of large barrel shape with incised banding near top and bottom. Reeded strap handle (slightly crooked). Covered overall with undercoat glaze of pea-soup color and souffle/ powder-like decoration in iron-red/brownish color over that.
canns
banding
glazing (coating)
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Banded
Lead Glazed
Tankard
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 3/4 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.388
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