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Molded yellow buff clay body w/ colorless glaze. Cylindrical form w/ finely molded berry and leaf relief decoration on sides enclosed by basal moldings. Slightly recessed flat bottom w/ impressed mark: "[circle] American Pottery Company/ Jersey City, New Jersey." Concave top is fluted and cants inward to a hole at center.
spittoons
yellowware
Yelloware
SPITTOON
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
American Pottery Co. (Maker)
Jersey City, NJ, USA
3.313 (H), 8.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.632
New Jersey (United States)
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