Pinched Redware Skillet Handle and Rim Sherd

One rolled and pinched handle with an attached rim sherd from a redware skillet, pipkin or similar cooking vessel. The body is light orange in color and has a colorless lead glaze on both the interior and exterior. The edge of the rim appears lightly burned and some of the glaze is missing from this area either due to use or from kiln damage. The handle measures to 2.27 inches in length and approximately an inch in diameter.

• Object number

  1013.7

• Decoration

  Lead Glazed

  Double Glazed

• Animals/objects

  Skillet

• Patterns

  Other

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Food Preparation & Service

• Material

  Coarse Earthenware

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Sub-Landfill: River Bottom Silt Deposit (624.1013)

• Forms

  Body/Rim/Handle

• Ware types

  Redware

• Techniques

  Handbuilt, Unidentified