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- Stoneware Jar, 1807 - This jar was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware pieces were decorated with an array of designs, including the inscription, "LIBERTY FOREV" (probably implying "Liberty Forever"), on this piece.
- 1807
- Collections - Artifact
Stoneware Jar, 1807
This jar was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware pieces were decorated with an array of designs, including the inscription, "LIBERTY FOREV" (probably implying "Liberty Forever"), on this piece.