Electrified Stoneware Jug Lamp

Item Information

Title:
Electrified Stoneware Jug Lamp
Description:
Large stoneware jug; bulbous form with small reeded neck; neck-to-body handle; gray color with incised decoration of caricature-like bust of a woman painted with blue glaze; touches of blue to handle area; now wired to function as electric lamp.
Date:
1800–1850
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
glazing (coating process)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
throwing (pottery technique)
incising
lamps (lighting devices)
jugs (vessels)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Stoneware
Salt-Glazed
Thrown
Sgraffito
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
14 in. x 9 in. (H x W)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/2520
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.569
Identifier:
2520