Description:
English salt-glazed, press-molded stoneware flask or bottle that looks like a pocketbook with a cork at one end. The pocket book is rectangular in shape with the top flap folded over and stuck in a loop, and decorated with T-shaped punches. The phenomena of these decorative flasks is described in Ivor Noel Hume, "If These Pots Could Talk", (Milwaukee, WI: The Chipstone Foundation, 2001), pp. 301-327.

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

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