Oversized mug with strap handle. Inside and outside covered with olive green glaze varied with deep yellow-orange spots (some rust-color glaze near base); interlaced with wavy lines incised near top rim. Some spray/sponge-like dark glaze coloration covers some of outside.
mugs
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Mug
Mug
Handwritten on paper label on bottom underside: Made/in Orange/New Hamp. Descended in family with/Hazen bowl./Coll Mr. & Mrs. B.K. Little
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Hazen, Jesse (Maker)
Lowell Pottery (Maker)
Orange, NH, USA
8 x 7 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.695
New Hampshire (United States)
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