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Cylindrical shape with short straight reeded collar and fitted cover with flatish round knop. Single incised band towards top. Covered overall, inside and out, with greenish yellow glaze with iron red spotting and red trim around base. Lid has more brown glaze with blackish spots.
jars
covers (closures)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
reeding
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Reeding
Lead Glazed
JAR, FOOD STORAGE
Handwritten on fabric label on bottom underside: [indistinct lettering: COOGAT/ASSINIR (?). Could it refer to Assinipi (NY?) where NFL purchased storage jar #1991.701?]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.696A,B
Unknown
7 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.696AB
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