American. Jug, ca. 1828–1856. Stoneware, 11 1/8 x 9 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.3 x 23.8 x 22.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 50.160. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 50.160_bw.jpg)
American. Jug, ca. 1828–1856. Stoneware, 11 1/8 x 9 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.3 x 23.8 x 22.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 50.160. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 50.160_acetate_bw.jpg)
Jug
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CULTURE
American
MAKER
Edward Hall
MANUFACTURER
W. P. Harris Pottery
MEDIUM
Stoneware
DATES
ca. 1828–1856
DIMENSIONS
11 1/8 x 9 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.3 x 23.8 x 22.2 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
In ring around shoulder, impressed letters filled in with blue glaze: "MADE. BY. E. HALL. OHIO. TO. JOHN. DOLL / .INGS"
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
50.160
CREDIT LINE
Museum Collection Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Salt-glazed stoneware jug, gray ground. Ringed spherical body rises to elongated, cylindrical neck with narrow, lipped mouth. Looped handle attached to collar. Center of body opposite handle decorated with molded forms of two hands shaking (cut off above wrist) above branches with leaves and flowers (tulip?), accented in blue glaze. Small round blue-glazed disks applied in bands around base, around collar, and down handle. In ring around shoulder, impressed and painted in blue: "MADE. BY. E. HALL. OHIO. TO. JOHN. DOLL / .INGS". Flat, coiled form with blue-glazed disk in center applied to body at sides of central hands motif and around lower part of handle. Cylindrical stopper fits into mouth; finial broken off / lost.
CONDITION: Good; broken finial; hairline crack (firing imperfection?) along top edge of hands.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CAPTION
American. Jug, ca. 1828–1856. Stoneware, 11 1/8 x 9 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.3 x 23.8 x 22.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 50.160. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 50.160_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 50.160_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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