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Tobacco jar
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Covered jar
Tobacco jar
English
about 1902–22 or 1927–36
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Stoneware
Dimensions
15.87 cm (6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Professor Emeritus F. H. Norton and the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accession Number1971.620a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionSlightly tapering top and bottom. Lid and body decorated with large brown leaves on blue-brown background, which has raised leaf-like pattern. Three colored bands around top and bottom. Remnants of a sponge fitted into underside of lid.
Marks
Marks: impressed seal with lion and crown [in use from 1902-1922], "op" (or "od"), 391 (or 891?), and "LYZ" incised decorator's mark.
InscriptionsInscribed in pencil on underside, "Loaned to Varkins [?] Museum"