Stoneware hot water bottle with cream-colored glaze. Bottle has false mouth at top and is flattened on one side, mouth missing plug on opposite side. Stamped "DORCHESTER POTTERY WORKS, BOSTON, MASS."
hot-water bottles
stoneware (pottery)
glazing (coating)
Warmer, Body
Bottle, Hot Water
Bottle, Hot Water
"DORCHESTER / POTTERY WORKS / BOSTON, MASS." (stamped)
Dorchester Pottery Works
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
11 x 6 x 6 (HxWxD), 4 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Mary P. Lord
1943.762
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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