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" Condition: there are some hairline cracks on the neck of the vessel, a glaze loss and glaze roughness (original in firing) on the side of the pot, some hairline cracks on the side of the vessel, and glaze losses inside the interior of the pot, 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.
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