Jug

1860-1910

Measurements

8-7/8 in x 5-5/8 in x 4-1/2 in (dia)

Materials

Salt-glazed stoneware

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation

Accession Number

1982.336

Condition Notes

A stopper or cork is missing.

Provenance

The jug was purchased on October 30, 1982, at a Harry Rudnick & Sons auction for Margaret B. Davis of Odessa.  Ex coll. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison V. Davis.  The 1982 accession record states that the jug was “probably used between 1900 and 1930 when Harrison V. Davis and his father, Frank Davis, operated the Davis General Store,” built c. 1828 on Main Street in Odessa.