A 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Ring Flask or Bottle

I purchased this nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware ring flask or ring bottle years ago from Robesonia, Pennsylvania antiques dealer Greg Kramer - admittedly, other than being American-made, I'm not sure about its exact origin. But I suspect it was made somewhere along the East Coast, anywhere from North Carolina to Maine. 

Nonetheless, Cornelius Weygandt (1871-1957), an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an author, wrote the book November Rowen: A Late Harvest From the Hills of New Hampshire in 1941; on page 272, he wrote, "I had heard much talk, from my first summering in Sandwich (New Hampshire), of the encouragement that rum gave to the harvesters in old time, but hard cider had driven out rum by the time I came along to observe men and manners in our hill town. I heard of the rum ring, a hollow tube of redware pottery slung over the shoulder by a strap, and I finally secured one down by Boscowan (New Hampshire)."

A 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Ring Flask or Bottle

A 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Ring Flask or Bottle

Measures 8 1/4" in Diameter

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