Digital Collections

Jug

Object/Artifact

A salt glazed gray thrown stoneware semi-ovoid jug of unknown manufacture. The jug has a rimless collar with an unglazed mouth and a deep incised line at the throat. The handle of the jug is pulled on from the collar, supported by extra clay at the neck, and laid on in a C curve to an attached end. The base of the jug is haloed in light greenish-brown, an area where fly ash and/or salt vapor has overglazed. The upper portion of the jug is spattered in brown. The jug then extends downward to an flat unglazed base. The jug has a corn cob fragment inside, probably used as a stopper.

2008.005.121

Beulah Marshall Bailey Collection

1850 - 1900

Tools & equipment for materials

Food Processing T&E

Foodways

Pottery 19th century

Food storage

jugs

Stoneware United States

Albany Slip

9-1/4 in

9 in

6-1/16 in

Depth measured from top to interior bottom.

Clay

Glaze

Albany Slip

American Stonewares: The Art & Craft of Untilitarian Potters. Greer, Georgeanna H. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen PA. 1981. American Stoneware. Ketchum, William C. , Jr. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1991.

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