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. Salt-glazed stoneware, thrown storage jar, with circular mouth, thick rim, undercut neck to secure a string around a covering of the opening, shoulders are curved, and the sides are straight, the bottom is flat, the top third of the jar has been dipped into an iron rich brown slip, there is a scribe line at where the neck and the shoulder meet, and another at the shoulder, probably made in London, England, c. 1740-60. Condition: there are some hairline cracks in the body of the jar
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