Jug
- Object Name:
- Jug
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.01.11
- Place of Origin:
- Europe
- Date:
- 1650-1800
- Description:
- Jug. Gray/brown salt-glaze stoneware, type known as "rhenish" or "westerwald." Bulbous body with cylindrical neck and strap handle (no spout). Flat bottom. Fully decorated on exterior with incised and applied decorations. Lower portion of body decorated with parallel vertical incised lines. Upper portion of body decorated with sprigs of applied flowers glazed in dark brown with incised cross hatching between the flowers. White stones are also part of the decoration and are within the flowers. Neck is plain except for three horizontal incised lines. Exterior of jug is light brown; interior is light brown. Sticker on bottom is illegible.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Stoneware - Dimensions:
- H-11.4 W-7.9 D-6.9 Dia-4.7 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Prentis Collection, exhibited in the "dining room" of the NHHS Prentis rooms. Listed as "English, late 17th C." on Prentis Collection inventory.
The Prentis Collection -- given by Katherine Prentis Murphy and her brother Edmund Astley Prentis, in memory of Katherine's husband, David Edward Murphy -- formed the contents of a suite of early New England "period rooms," meant to represent the home of a prosperous New England merchant c. 1730. The rooms were exhibited at the New Hampshire Historical Society (30 Park St.), 1957-1983. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
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