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Culture:American
Title:flask
Date Made:c. 1840
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed red earthenware (redware); manganese lead glaze
Place Made:United States; New England
Measurements:Overall: 6 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 16.5 cm x 9.2 cm x 8.3 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2014.4.165
Credit Line:William T. Brandon Collection of American Redware and Ceramics
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Thrown, redware flask or flattened bottle shape with round base, wide sides, and tapering, narrow neck, spout has rounded lip, covered all over in a dark brown manganese lead glaze, the glaze is slightly metallic, painted on the lower edge of the glaze on the base are the red numbers, “K? .880” and “?26”

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

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