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    • Artifact ID #: 0159
    • Excavation Unit: Locality 30
    • Level: Unknown
    • Identification: Chinese brown-glazed stoneware wide-mouthed jar, partially reconstructed. A wide-mouthed jar was used to hold a broad variety of dried or pickled goods imported from China. For instance, some of these vessels contained spices, pickled duck eggs, or sometimes even dried or pickled fish. Once filled with the particular item for shipment, the jar was sealed with an unglazed ceramic lid and the application of wet clay, ribbon, and in some cases a paper label. To use the contents the Chinese consumer broke the seal and removed the lid, and there are examples of these lids at German Gulch. The wide-mouth jar has the same type of glaze as the spouted jar, and the best way to tell the difference is to find the rim like in this example.


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