1960s: mending with shellac and infilling with fine white plaster painted gray.
Description
Splattered blotches or orangish red and reddish gray across middle to upper body after firing: resin or pitch?
Preservation description
14 joining sherds preserves ca. 40% of middle to upper body with complete shoulder, neck and mouth, and both handles. Slight, sparse abrasion and incipient erosion with rare scoring and gouging; worn breaks; faint, sparse clouds of gray discoloration. Weathering consistent with long marine submersion.