Description:
Baked beans have been a staple in the United States for generations, and the redware bean pot was a common item. Lead-glazed inside and out or only on the interior, with one, two or no handles, these squat round forms ranged in capacity from a pint to a gallon and came with matching lids. Also sometimes listed as "bean bakers" in potters' price lists. Cylindrical ovoid pot with flat bottom, tapering base, swelling sides, flaring shoulder, rim is rounded and slightly pointed, there is no evidence of a lid; exterior of pot is not glazed and is scorched with soot, old grease, and smoke, there is also an incised line on the exterior of the pot just about inch under the rounded rim; the interior of the pot is lead-glazed, the object was thrown on a wheel. Condition: good. surface is covered in soot from being used in an open hearth area or bake oven.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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