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Large Devonshire harvest jug of bulbous form with short neck and pinched spout, with ridged and coiled strap handle; thrown from red earthenware with allover brown and yellow slip sgraffito decoration showing a crowned lion holding a British flag between two flowering trees on one side, and large panel of inscription about the harvest below handle, with name and date.
pitchers (vessels)
redware
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
sgraffito (technique)
slip (clay)
throwing (pottery technique)
flags
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Redware
Slip
Sgraffito
Thrown
Flag
Lion
Harvest
Pitcher
Incised on body below handle: ""Harvest is Come all's Busy Now/In Making of The Barley Mow/If You The Barley Mow Neglect/Good Ale You Cannot then Expect/Mr. Oliver Davie/A.----[indistinct & covered]/20th July 1801"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 1/2 x 9 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.688
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