Painted North American Salt-Glazed Stoneware Storage Container

These three hefty sherds mend to form a portion of the body and rim of a North American Salt-glaze stoneware storage vessel with an Albany-type slipped interior. The cylindrical shape would have included a broad opening with a low-profile flat rim. One sherd contains the broken base of a handle, which would have assisted in lifting the heavy stoneware vessel. The angle of the attachment suggests the handle was one of two horizontal loop-type handles. The handle attachment is outlined with painted cobalt, a technique often used by New York City stoneware makers. This decorative element on this vessel is darkened, almost black, and the paste of the broken sherds are also darkened, suggesting the vessel was exposed to burning sometime after it was broken.

• Object number

  1176.16, 1176.7, 1176.15

• Date made

  ca. 1825 - Early 20th century

• Decoration

  Painted

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Hollowware

• Patterns

  Cobalt Encircling Handle Terminal(s)

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Multifunction-Food Related

• Material

  Stoneware

• Context

  Lot 26*, Test Cut AP, Cistern Deposit: Grayish, Yellowish and Rust Brown Silty Sand in Feature (624.1176)

• Forms

  Body/Rim/Handle

• Ware types

  Stoneware, North American

  Salt-Glazed

• Techniques

  Wheel Thrown

  Burned