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Jar with lid

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1800-1850

GUSN

GUSN-8503

Description

Baluster form with deepset lid into straight 1" collar. Lid has flatish round knop. "Ear" handles at shoulder with incised band intersecting at handles. Covered overall with olive green glaze with yellow/orange mottling spots. Underglaze foot and about 1/2" above foot.

Details

Descriptive Terms

jars
covers (closures)
cookware
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Lead Glazed
Jar, Food-storage

Inscription

Old handwritten paper shop label on outside of lid: CROCK + COVER/ $18

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.716A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11 1/4 (H), 7 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.716AB

Places

New England (United States) [general region]
Massachusetts (United States)
New Hampshire (United States)

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