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Maker(s):unknown
Culture:American
Title:lard pot
Date Made:1800-1840
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed red earthenware (redware)
Place Made:United States; New England
Accession Number:  HD 2014.19.7
Credit Line:D.J. and Alice Shumway Nadeau Collection
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Thrown, bulbous-shaped pot with wide, circular mouth, curving sides, and incurving base; flat circular bottom; pot has a thicker rim, coated on the interior of the pot with a layer of lead glaze, white paper label on side of pot reads: "1082". Condition: a small chip off the rim and glaze roughness along the top rim from being original fired upside down.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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