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Mug

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1820-1830

GUSN

GUSN-8480

Description

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.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mugs
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Mug
Mug

Inscription

Handwritten on paper label on bottom underside: Made/in Orange/New Hamp. Descended in family with/Hazen bowl./Coll Mr. & Mrs. B.K. Little

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Hazen, Jesse (Maker)
Lowell Pottery (Maker)

Location of Origin

Orange, NH, USA

Dimensions

8 x 7 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.695

Places

New Hampshire (United States)

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