Description:
The classic barrel-shaped water cooler used to store and serve water, rum, wine, or hard cider is rare in redware because of its fragility. On the other hand, the roughly pint-sized rundlet is fairly common. These vessels were used to carry rum and other hard liquor. Most are covered in a dark black manganese glaze, but examples splashed in olive, green, red, and brown are also found. Thrown redware barrel or rundlet with four incised rings above and below, protruding circular spout or bunghole from center side, covered in a mottled, thick brownish-green glaze, painted on the base of the barrel is the red number "135". Origin: New Hampshire or Maine, c. 1860. Originally part of the Burton N. Gates Collection, a note card from the Gates papers reads: "135 Barrel: Liquor or water flask. Red clay, glaze heavy and poorly flowed. High hoops incised. Col. Brunswick, Me. 1913. said to have come from old family of locality. B.N.G."
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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