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. Ovoid shaped thrown redware flask with pinched-in sides, narrow circular lip, and circular base; dark manganese brown streaked decoration along sides of flask on a reddish ground, there is an incised line at the shoulder of the flask; base of flask is unglazed, there are remnants of an old paper label on the bottom; pencil inscription on base is indecipherable, Condition: small chips to lip of flask, one small base chip, Origin: probably Connecticut, c. 1840. Presumed to be part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. A notecard in the Gates papers for object #34 seems similar, "34/ Bottle, spice./ Col. Conn. 1903. Red clay: reddish brown glaze. splashed in black. 2 in/cised rings. Dented sides. 6 in."
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