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Description:
German salt-glazed stoneware mug decorated on front with an oval relief medallion of crowned "GR". German stoneware from the Westerwald region was exported in large quantities to England and the American colonies. References to "checker'd" stoneware in America appear in newspaper advertisement. The cylindrical mug has a contracted mouth; loop handle pierced at top; molded bands with cobalt lines around base and below mouth; between them an incised checkered band with alternate blue squares. Fragments of a similar mug are on view in the Archaeological Exhibition at Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. That mug has been decorated with alternating manganese purple and cobalt blue checkerboard squares.

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