Face Vessel
date: label: Date made
content: mid 19th century
label: Date made
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label: Date made
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label: date made
content: mid- 19th century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Most stoneware pottery produced in the South before about 1890 is
label: Description
content: covered with alkaline glazes made from local materials.
label: Description
content: Based on lime or wood ash, these glazes often fired to a green or brown color, typical of 19th-century southern stoneware.
label: Description
content: Although this piece was found in Portsmouth, New Hampshire it shares some characteristics of early southern face vessels.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: South Carolina, Edgefield
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lura Woodside Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.392525
label: catalog number
content: 392525
label: accession number
content: 196885
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vessel, face
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, stoneware, coarse (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in; 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/16 in x 5 in x 5 1/2 in; 18.89125 cm x 12.7 cm x 13.97 cm