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Globular-shaped redware jug with small foot and shoulder-to-body strap handle, covered overall with a rich and somewhat mottled unusually green glaze; lightly incised band near top; spots where dripped glaze did not join.
jugs (vessels)
incising
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
copper (metal)
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Copper
Jug
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 1/2 x 5 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.423
Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly Bristol county (Massachusetts) [county]
Possibly Rhode Island (United States)
Title Jug Accession Number 1991.720
Title Jug Accession Number 1991.721
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