Round bulbous form with small cylindrical neck surmounting sloping shoulder; slat bottom without foot; gray-blue glaze on muddy clay body; two faint underglaze blue bands around body.
ginger jars
porcelain
underglazing
Porcelain
Underglazed
JAR, GINGER
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Korea
5.5 (H), 4.125 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.848
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