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On Display: House - Stoneware Closet
Keg or barrel (Cask or cooler)
1860-1880
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Possibly Pennsylvania; Mid-Atlantic; United States or Germany; Europe or North America
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Museum Object Number
1959.1922
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1959.1922
Object Name
Keg or barrel (Cask or cooler)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Possibly Pennsylvania; Mid-Atlantic; United States or Germany; Europe or North America
Date
1860-1880
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Outer wall
Inscription: Stamped (impressed) "N" or "Z" within a circle.
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Pierced
- Trailed
Dimensions (inches)
9.606 (H) x 9.252 (W) x 12.874 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
24.4 (H) x 23.5 (W) x 32.7 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Lasansky, Jeannette. 1979 Made of Mud II: Redware Potteries in Central Pennsylvania 1783-1903.
• Information on possible maker.Book: Webster, Donald Blake. 1971 Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America.
• Similar form "cooler", with painted blue floral ornament (not incised): p. 180, no. 242, unmarked.Article: Wollett, Bill. 1986 A Miniature Keg. Stoneware Collectors Journal. 3 (3)
• Description of a smaller keg. p.30Book: Strauss, von Konrad & Aichele, Frieder. 1980 Steinzeug (Battenberg Antiquitaten-Kataloge).
• German incised and blue-decorated barrel of very similar form, on four feet: p. 103, no. 157, early 19th century. More elaborate decoration, but otherwise similar.