Urn
1800-1820
19th Century
6 1/8 in. x 5 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florenc Griswold Museum; Gift of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes-Old Lyme Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.89
A silver lusterware urn with two scrolled handles. Silver lusterware is made by coating the earthenware body with a platinum oxide. Firing reduces the oxide to a thin layer of platinum.