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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Hanging jar
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Hanging jar

CulturePeruvian | Unknown
Date19th century
MediumClay
DimensionsOverall: 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Katherine Barton Myers
Object number51.59.1
On View
On view
DescriptionPointed bottom hanging jar. Probably used for cooling water. One of five or six such jars found under the rear steps or in the earth of the cellar when it was concreted (stories differ) at the Myers House.

Exhibition HistoryMyers House/Old Kitchen
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1736-1795
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1736-1795
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Charles John Tyson
August 1863
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2013.
Adeline Myers
1798
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
W. B. Kerr & Co.
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
W. B. Kerr & Co.
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
W. B. Kerr & Co.
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Tiffany Studios
ca. 1898-1902
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
late 19th century