Painted Salt-Glazed Stoneware Jar Rim Sherd

One thick gray bodied salt-glazed stoneware rim sherd, likely from a jar or similar wide-mouthed storage vessel, with cobalt blue painted decoration on the exterior. The top of the rim is slightly flattened.

• Object number

  71.18

• Decoration

  Underglaze Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Jar

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Food Storage

• Material

  Stoneware

• Context

  Lot 12, Test Cut F: Rubble from Van Vleck House (624.71)

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Salt-Glazed

• Techniques

  Wheel Thrown