Description:
Jars are generally distinguished from pots and crocks by their smaller openings and mouths. Most earlier types were somewhat ovoid, but 18th-century straight-sided jars are known. Whatever the body form, the jar will have a pronounced lip (to facilitate sealing it with a piece of cloth or oiled paper). Some examples have turned inner ledges on which matching lids rested. Cyndrical, thrown redware jar, with flared foot, round bulbous sides, and outcurving neck; neck of pot is fitted with an upright flange to hold a lid in place, the lid does not survive; the pot is has a lightish green glaze ground with orange spots and vertical brown manganese streaks, base of pot is unglazed, a black ink inscription on the bottom of the pot reads: "Worcester/ Col. 1905" also there is a faint red inscription: "Col. 1905/ Worcester, Mass." and number possibly "30" Formerly part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. The Gates notecards reference a jar similar to this example, "30 Jar. Col. Worcester 1905. Red clay: greenish glaze with spots of yellow, orange, brown, 8 in. for cover, missing. Dark brown splash." Current attribution provided by American ceramics scholar Justin Thomas, 1/16/2019.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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