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. Large, cylindrical thrown jar, with flared out rim and large circular mouth, canted shoulders, and straight sides, with flat bottom; pot is decorated with subtle incised lines around the belly of the jar; covered in a lead glaze with mottled green, brown, and pinkish-red decoration dripped down the sides, Condition: large chips out of rim, hairline crack extending from rim into body, glaze losses around the shoulder area, some chips to the base, Origin: Southern New England, possibly Hartford area, c. 1860.
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