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Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)
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About this work
Tapered cylindrical, handleless pot with wide, everted, single-reeded rim on an applied, molded foot ring; made to be placed in a commode chair or stool. Sets of three and two incised lines around exterior. Bottom underside is engraved with a wrigglework semicircle containing "Abram Tuckerman" in script above "BOSTON" in shaded Roman letters and a shaded "I" or the Roman numeral "II" beneath the semicircle. No marks apparent.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineClose Stool Pan (Commode Pot). 1770 - 1800. National Museum of American History, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.
