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Bulbous shape covered with soft green glaze and brown splotches. Incised pattern of straight and wavy lines on top of half of jar. Incised flat lid.
jars
covers (closures)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Lead Glazed
Jar, Food-storage
Handwritten (NFL) paper label on backside of lid: Made by Jacob/Barrows, Dalton,/N.H. Descended with his family./Coll. Mr. & Mrs. B.K. Little. Old paper label on bottom underside: JAR./Made by Jacob Barrows, potter, Dalton,/N.H. Father of Huldah [?] Barrows/wife of John Aspinwall, Lancaster/N.H. - Mother of Julia Aspinwall/wife of Edmund Brown, Lancaster/N.H., who was our mother./Julia Brown Conner/Mary Brown Hatch
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.712A,B
Barrows, Jacob (Maker)
New Hampshire, United States of American
9 1/2 (H), 6 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.712AB
New Hampshire (United States)
Dalton (Coos county, New Hampshire)
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