Description:
Gallipots were all-purpose storage pots used for foods or other preparations in the home. This form appears in many early Connecticut River Valley probate inventories. For example, the 1698/9 inventory of Thomas Wells of Deerfield, MA, listed "one Glass Bottle, one Pewter Bottle, and Gally Pott" all valued at 1 shilling. Gallipot or storage jar, London, England, c. 1650. Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware), thrown jar with outurned rim edge, straight sides, and outurned base edge, painted with cobalt horizontal stripes at the top and bottom of the jar with a manganese chain band in the center. Similar but not identical jars were found among the wasters of a delftware factory located at Norfolk House, Lambeth. Condition: side of jar is cracked in two places, needs conservation. Paper label for Garry Atkins on base, and dealer's description: "A London tin-glazed earthenware 102 storage jar circa 1650."
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