Syrup jug, Crawford County, 1870s, alkaline glaze. Eastern Crawford County became a pottery center when James Long and John
Becham moved there from Washington County in the late 1820s. A mixture of impure kaolin and "swamp mud" for the clay body
sometimes created shearing or popoffs in the firing, as seen on the lower wall of this cane-syrup jug. "Paint rocks" (nodules
of naturally occurring, low-grade iron ore) were pulverized and sometimes added to the glaze to darken its color.
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