Description:
Ovid thrown container, narrow base, bulging sides, narrow neck, finial or top is slightly squareish in section, there is a vertical opening in the side of the bank for coins, there are horizontal incised ribs on the shoulder, and the neck of the bank, the bank is unglazed and covered with red and black ground paint with some gilded bands, decorated with a trailing vine with green leaves, on the bottom and top register, the top of the bank is painted black. Could possibly be from the Burton N. Gates collection #173. Notecard reads, "Penny Bank./ Unglazed: Painted ("Decorated"): stoneware./ Made at stoneware pottery Bennington Vt. 1877 - 1876? for Centennial/ purposes. Decorated by James C. White. Painted decorations/ were varied./ Col. Sept. 1910 in cellar of old crockery store on Comer.?/ by B.N.G./ (1965 "in cabinet in Bennington/Room". W.C.G."

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