2 I N. 



Most have interior flanges to receive covers. Glazed 

 inside. Such jars were essential for preserving and 

 pickling foods and for brewing beer. (Fig. 25.) 



Plate warmer or chafing dish: Unique specimen. 

 Diameter (including handle) 11", height 7". Heavy, 

 flaring pedestal foot supports wide bowl, glazed in- 

 side. Flat rim with slight elevation on outer edge. 

 Protruding vertically from rim are three lugs or sup- 

 ports for holding plates. Vertical loop handles ex- 

 tend from rim to lower sides of bowl. "Spirits of 

 wine" were probably burned in the bowl to heat the 

 plate above. (Fig. 20.) Fragmentary pedestals, sim- 

 ilar in profile to the one here (but smaller, having step 

 turnings around base) may have been parts of smaller 

 chafing dishes). (Fig. 31.) 



Ovens: (1) One wholly reconstructed oven at 

 Jamestown. Made in sections on drape molds: base, 

 two sides, two halves of top, opening frame, and door. 

 Side and top sections are joined with seams, rein- 

 forced by finger impressions, meeting at top of trape- 

 zoidal opening. The opening was molded separately 

 and joined with thumb-impressed reinforcements. A 



Figure 30. — Exteriors (left) and interiors of gravel- 

 tempered sherds. Top to bottom: rim of small 

 bowl; rim of small jar with internal flange to 

 receive cover; and pipkin handle. Colonial Na- 

 tional Historical Park. {From Smilhsonian photos 

 43039-C, 43"39~D.) 



flat door with heavy vertical handle, round in section, 

 fits snugly into opening. Thickness varies from %" 

 to I'i". Unglazed, although smears of glaze dripped 

 during the firing indicate that the oven was fired with 

 glazed utensils stacked above it. (Fig. 10.) 



(2) Oven in place in Bowne House, Flushing, Long 

 Island. Similar in shape to Jamestown oven. Open- 

 ing is arched. 



(3) Body sherd and handle sherds at Jamestown, 

 from additional oven or ovens. 



(4) Body sherd from dome-top oven siinilar to tliose 

 at Jamestown and Flushing. John Howland House 

 site, Rocky Nook, Kingston, Plymouth County, Mas- 

 sachusetts. (Fig. 26.) 



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