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Bean Pot with Lid

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1850-1899

GUSN

GUSN-8509

Description

Squat globular shape. Short upturned collar; pouring lip. Fitted with replacement lid. Side strap handle (double reeded); rouletted band around shoulder. Covered overall with orange glaze and vertical dark brown markings. Lid darker orange/brown glaze; different texture.

Details

Descriptive Terms

crockpots
lids
cookware
glazing (coating)
redware
roulettes (engraving tools)
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
reeding
Redware
Thrown
Rouletted
Reeding
Lead Glaze
Pot, Crock

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.722A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

6 x 6 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.722AB

Places

Possibly Connecticut (United States)

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