Description:
This brown stoneware vessel is essentially gray-colored clay with a thin wash of iron oxide, a common technique on stoneware in England and parts of Germany. Storage jars of this type were made in the thousands and imported into America throughout the eighteenth century. They were intended to store liquid or dry foodstuffs such as pickles and flour. A similar jar was found in the Big Dig archaeology at the Three Cranes Tavern site, Charlestown, MA, c. 1770. Ovoid-shaped, thrown, salt-glazed stoneware storage jar, the mouth of the jar is circular with thick, curved sides, the rim is undercut for securing a string around a cover on the mouth of the jar, the jar has broad shoulders and a very narrow tapered base, and a flat bottom, coated with a layer of iron oxide about half way up the vessel from the top down, there is also a scribed line around the widest part of the shoulder of the vessel, probably made in London, England, c. 1750. This brown stoneware vessle is essentially gray colored clay with a thin wash of iron oxide, a common technique used on stoneware made in England and parts of Germany. Storage jars of this type were made in the thousands and imported into America throughout the 18th century. They were intended to store liquid or dry foodstuffs such as pickles or flour.
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