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Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)
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About this work
Tall, tapered cylindrical, handleless pot with wide, horizontal, single-reeded rim and rounded bottom on an applied, molded foot ring or base; made to be placed in a commode chair or stool. Molded band around underside of rim at juncture with sides. Two pairs of incised lines around exterior. Partial touchmark on rim face "[I]&H" in raised serif letters inside a finely serrated, cyma-curved, oblong surround. No other marks apparent.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineClose Stool Pan (Commode Pot). 1778 - 1807. National Museum of American History, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.
