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ca. 1800
GUSN-26150
Bellarmine type. Brownish-tan "orange peel" glaze extends 2/3's the way down sides. Clear glaze to base from this point. Thrown by hand, the sides flare out from base and in at the shoulders. Neck is decorated w/ an embossed "grotesque" (male face). Side has the stamps: [horseshoe shaped appearance]. Rings at lip. Pulled handle. Base has sticker: "From the collection of Joseph Downs".
jugs (vessels)
glazing (coating)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
grotesques
Stoneware
Salt-Glazed
Grotesque
JUG
Gilman Garrison House (Exeter, N.H.),
Unknown
15.5 (H) (inches)
Bequest of William Perry Dudley
1966.1404
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