Cylindrical shape with angular shoulder and short, straight collar. Fitted drop-in lid with flatish round knop. Incised banding at shoulder. Covered overall with colorful glaze of soft green with touches of yellow and iron red vein-like and spray-like patterns. Lid more red-brown with green.
jars
covers (closures)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Neoclassical
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Lead Glaze
Jar, Food-storage
Handwritten label on bottom underside: NEW YORK/PROB. ITHACA [NFL handwriting. Last word indistinct, but likely Ithaca.]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.699A,B
Unknown
7 1/2 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.699AB
(image of dresser, object second shelf far right)
Possibly New York state (United States)
Possibly
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