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Large stoneware jug; bulbous form with small reeded neck; neck-to-body handle; gray color with incised decoration of caricature-like bust of a woman painted with blue glaze; touches of blue to handle area; now wired to function as electric lamp.
lamps (lighting devices)
jugs (vessels)
glazing (coating)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
throwing (pottery technique)
incising
Stoneware
Salt-Glazed
Thrown
Sgraffito
JUG
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
14 x 9 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.569
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