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that the jug was introduced into Delaware at a com- 

 paratively early date. 



Many other harvest jugs have been similarly 

 cherished in England. An almost e.xact counterpart 

 of the Delaware jug, and obviously by the same 

 potter, is in the Glaisher collection in Cambridge. 

 This jug, dated "1703/4," *' displays such variations 

 as absence of the male head and a different inscrip- 

 tion. Another jug, with a hunting scene but with a 

 similar neck and collar treatment, seems again to be 



Figure 27. — Gravel-tempered sherds from Angelica 

 Knoll site, Calvert County, Maryland. United 

 .States National Museum. {Smithsonian photo ^^008- 

 A.) 



by the same hand; it is dated "1703." ™ 



From the standpoint of identifying and dating 

 the archeologically recovered sgraffito ware, these 

 jugs are important in showing certain traits similar 



«9 Rackham, op. cit. (footnote 33), vol. 2, p. II, fig. 8d, no. 58. 

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'"John Eliot Hodgkin and Edith Hodgkin, Examples oj Early 

 English Pottery, A'amed, Dated, and Inscribed. London, 1891, 

 p. 59. 



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