Description:
Gemel Flask or double flask, attributed to Absolom Stedman, New Haven, Connecticut, c. 1830. Salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt decoration. Impressed mark on shoulder of both flasks, "New Haven/ New Haven." Two flasks joined together with a handle.
Label Text:
Building a Collection, September 27, 2025-February 23, 2025: New England redware potters produced inexpensive, easily breakable wares necessary for cooking, storage, and dairying activities. Milk pans, jugs, jars, bowls, crocks, bean pots, mugs, dishes, and chamber pots were the most typical products. Of the tens of thousands of vessels made, very few survive intact above ground. Those that do were often saved because of their aesthetic qualities or historical associations. Since redware potters rarely signed or marked their objects, archaeological evidence or pieces with family histories help determine who might have manufactured anonymous examples.
Stoneware jugs, jars, and crocks supplied the same needs, but the material was more durable as a result of being fired at a higher temperature. Unlike redware, most stoneware is marked by the maker. This stoneware double jug, called a gemel flask, held two different liquids (such as oil and vinegar) at once. These objects—part of a significant gift of redware and stoneware—have helped to expand both the size and diversity of forms represented in the museum’s collection of 18th and 19th-century New England-made ceramics.
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alcohol Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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