Collection Highlights
Parure
ca. 1820
1920.11-17
Cut steel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Kiln prop
Object name
Kiln prop
Date
1800-1838
Medium
Stoneware
Dimensions
Overall: 1 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 1/2 in. ( 4.4 x 7 x 1.3 cm )
Description
Salt-glazed stoneware kiln prop with areas of cobalt splashes; arched shape.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. John Paul Remensnyder
Object Number
1958.38
Gallery Label
After stoneware vessels were formed, marked, and decorated, they were carefully stacked in the firing kiln. In order to keep the vessels from fusing together, potters placed stoneware props, made simply of wads of stoneware clay, between the pots. This prop was found by the donor around 1958 during an excavation on the east edge of City Hall Park, near the former site of the Crolius pottery.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
