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Bulbous ovoid shape. Two short "ear" handles at shoulder. Pronounced neck and deep-set lid. Incised with wavy lines around top. Covered overall with orange glaze with splashes of green, yellow and brown. Short unglazed foot.
jars
covers (closures)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
tin (metal)
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Lead Glazed
Jar, Food-storage
Fabric label on bottom underside: CONN.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.708
Unknown
10 1/2 x 7 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.709AB
Connecticut (United States)
Probably Connecticut (United States)
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