Syrup jug with cherrywood plug, ca. 1890, ash version of alkaline glaze. This jug and three others from the same workshop
were found in a Hiawassee smokehouse and contained sorghum syrup residue. They were made at one of Georgia's few mountain
potteries, perhaps that of George Dillard in Rabun County. For jugs with narrower necks, corncobs were customarily used as
stoppers.
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