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Redware jug of globular shape with a chunky strap handle starting from the narrow neck; it is covered, overall, with an olive greenish-brown spotted glaze, with three incised bands near the top. It is now wired and rigged as an electric lamp with a medium sized white and gold trimmed shade.
electric lamps (lighting device forms)
jugs (vessels)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
lead glaze
redware
turning (shaping process)
Redware
Lead Glaze
Turned
Incised
Lamp, Electric
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 x 6 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1385
Title Electrified Jug Lamp Accession Number 1991.281
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