Description:
Redware potters made two basic forms: the flask and the bottle. The former was a flattened ovoid much like the squashed handleless jug and generally similar to the hip flasks produced during the 19th century by glasshouses. The bottle form might resemble a glass sack bottle of the early 1800s, or at a later date, the very common stoneware ginger beer bottle. Unusual tapered redware bottle in a bullet shape with flared lip, triple incised bands at neck, shoulder, and belly, orange colored ground with manganese splashes over the surface, the base is unglazed and flat; on bottom is a number in red, "133," probably made in Pennsylvania, c. 1840. Excellent condition, some loss of glaze on the interior of the spout, Originally part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. A notecard in the Gates papers for this object reads: "133/ Round Bottle Red Clay. Transparent glaze/slight brown mottle with three bands of incised rings./ 3 in base: 7 in high."
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