Description:
Cylindrical redware cup with straight flared sides, flat base, and attached strap handle with three ribs, covered with a dark brown, lustrous lead glaze. Red earthenwares coated with a dark brown glaze were a very common product throughout the east coast of the United States. These vessels were inexpensive and commonly used for utilitarian purposes such as food storage or food service. Because of the fragility of the pottery, many of these wares do not survive and are subsequently rare. This example has severe losses of glaze on its interior caused by a soluble salts problem. Salts within the clay are liquifying and recrystallizing at certain humidities causing the glaze to flake or be pushed off the ceramic surface. Glaze has been removed from base; a black crayon marking on base reads "BF/000" in rectangle?, and two modern paper labels read: "RD30" and "RD30".
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