Stoneware, a specialty of medieval German potters, is a hard, nonporous ceramic. As it is both strong and impervious to liquids, it was ideally suited for domestic purposes.
Credit: Gift of Anthony and Lois Blumka, 1991
Late 1300s or early 1400s
Partially salt-glazed stoneware
23.1 x 13.9 x 12.1 cm
1991.471.4
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