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Jar
1700–50
Object Place: Puebla, Mexico
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 26 x 11.5 cm (10 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number00.389
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionAn earthenware jar with wide shoulders and a narrower, circular base, covered with a white tin-glaze and blue painted decoration. A piece of leather or parchment may have been originally tied around the raised, circular rim with a cord to seal the vessel as was common practice.
Provenance1900, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 22, 1900)