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Culture:English
Title:jug
Date Made:1815-1830
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze), brown slip, overglaze yellow enamel
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire
Measurements:overall: 6 3/4 x 7 in.; 17.145 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2002.34
Credit Line:Gift of Margaret E.C. Howland
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
English pearlware large jug often called "granite ware" or "gravelware" by collectors. The jug has a V-shaped spout; straight neck; attached curved handle with molded leafy palmette terminals; body with broad rounded shoulders tapering to a flat circular base; and small turned footrim. The neck of jug is decorated with a brown band of iron-rich slip; the body is decorated with finely crushed granules of fired clay and subsequently decorated in underglaze high temperature oxide color in a lozenge pattern of yellow diamonds with brown slip dots. The spout has been chipped and stained. The modern paper label on the base reads "443".

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location)

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