Basic info

Collection

Decorative Arts

Object name

Jar

Bung hole pot

Cistern

Object category

Ceramic

Creators

Unknown (Potter)

Description

A large salt glazed stoneware cistern. It has a bulbous body and narrow neck with two handles running from rim to shoulder. It is incised around the shoulder and body with bonding. At the bottom is a bung hole. The red stoneware has a brown glaze.

Production date start

1550

Production date end

1750

Period

Tudor

Elizabethan

Stuart

Jacobean

Charles I and Civil War

Commonwealth

Restoration

William and Mary

Queen Anne

Georgian