Jar, Preserving

Object number2007.57.43

Datec. 1875

Mediumstoneware clay, with salt glaze and cobalt slip decoration

Credit LineGift of Bernard Vavrek and Joanne Vavrek

DescriptionStoneware canning or fruit jar: reddish-brown body clay has fired to a dark gray/brown color, under a salt glaze; wide base, tapering inward somewhat toward the neck; mouth section may have been molded (mold seam visible), and then attached to the body on the potter's wheel; formed flange at mouth, designed to fit a wax-sealed cap or lid; stencilled cobalt-slip decoration of a curving, upright plant, with open flowers and buds; also, three broad free-hand horizontal brush-strokes or lines; kiln-separator scar near base, and sx unglazed stacker scars on bottom of jar; interior has a very dark brown albany-slip glaze.Dimensions8.125 x 5.5 in. (20.6 x 14 cm)
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Historical NotesThis broad-based fruit jar is unmarked. The mouth/rim may have been press-moulded and then attached while spinning on a wheel. Part of a collection of stoneware from local manufacturers in the Western Pennsylvania region.

Collector Bernard Vavrek

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