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Wine keg

Wine keg
Object name 
Wine keg
Date 
1821
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Oliver Dubois
Medium 
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
Dimensions 
Overall: 18 x 11 1/2 in. ( 45.7 x 29.2 cm )
Description 
Salt-glazed stoneware wine keg with hand inscribed mark on top and elaborately decorated with hand incised and cobalt blue painted with fish, bird, and leaves.
Credit Line 
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number 
1937.910
Marks 
incised: by hand on keg top: "Oliver Dubois/Zanesville Ohio/Sept. 11 1821/Price $200"
Gallery Label 
It is possible that this keg was made on the East Coast and brought to Ohio. The Zanesville pottery industry boomed in the 1890s.
Provenance 
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.