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Five-Gallon Churn

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Creator	Randolph Manufacturing Company. [attributed to]
Title	Five-Gallon Churn
Medium or Materials	ceramic glazes -- alkaline glaze
Date Original	ca. 1855 - 1881
Description	A five-gallon churn with two lug handles and five decorative score marks encircling the body. The decorative tobacco glaze application features six vertical stripes in a contrasting color, giving it the overall appearance of a watermelon.
Place of Origin	Bastrop County (Tex.)
Caption / Inscription / Signature	No marks found.
Date Digital	2019
Type	img
Artisan or Artist	Randolph Manufacturing Company.
Name Variations	Dunkin Jug Factory. ; Randolph Factory.
Subject LC	glazes ; churns ; pottery
Subject AAT	Materials Facet -- Materials (Hierarchy Name) -- materials (matter) -- coating (material) -- glaze -- ceramic glaze -- alkaline glaze ; Objects Facet -- Furnishings and Equipment (Hierarchy Name) -- Tools and Equipment (Hierarchy Name) -- equipment -- culinary equipment -- churns ; Objects Facet -- Visual and Verbal Communication (Hierarchy Name) -- Visual Works (Hierarchy Name) -- visual works (works) -- ceramic ware (visual works) -- pottery (visual works) -- stoneware (pottery)
Subject NMC	Tools and Equipment for Materials -- food processing and preparation tools and equipment -- food processing equipment -- tool, dairy -- churn
Form	culinary equipment -- churns ; visual works -- ceramics -- stoneware
Coverage Date	ca. 1855 - 1881
Resource Set	Wilson Pottery Show 2018
Contributing Institution	Private Collection of Jeff Merrell.
Rights	Reproduced here with permission from the owner. For more information, contact texasartisans@mfah.org
Format	jpg
Hill Texas Archive Research Notes	The score marks encircling Duncan pottery may serve as decorative marks indicating capacity, as the size of each piece bearing these decorations generally corresponds to the number of encircling marks.
Artisan or Artist Identifier	AI-00105
Identifier	OBJ-062-25
Date created	2019-01-30
Date modified	2019-01-30

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Title	OBJ-062-25_001
Date created	2019-01-30
Date modified	2019-01-30

Five-Gallon Churn

OBJ-062-25_001

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Five-Gallon Churn

Five-Gallon Churn