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Culture:English
Title:jug
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed red earthenware (redware), copper lustre (lusterware), blue slip
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire (probably)
Measurements:overall: 5 3/4 in.; 14.605 cm
Accession Number:  HD 03-S
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English lusterware jug with an animal handle, decorated with copper lustre and a band of blue slip, and two deer by a tree. Its copper lustre decoration is created by applying gold salts to the red earthenware body, where in the heat of the kiln the metal is deposited as a thin layer on the surface. Mosely inv. #

Subjects:
Pottery; Copper; glaze (coating by location)

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