Memory Ware Jug with Pair of Tintype Portraits, c. Early 20th century hand-lettered and some white spattering on

and some white spattering on the top piece

so evocative and with a bit of an eeriness about it

Erongarícuaro

and then bench sitting elders

To hang this May basket on your door

Memory Ware Jug with Pair of Tintype Portraits, c. Early 20th century hand-lettered and some white spattering onWhile I appreciate them, I don't usually go for memory jugs; somehow they tend to feel a bit too cumbersome, or messy, or clunky, or something, to me. But I fell for this one, of just the right scale for my taste, and with what I find a very satisfying feeling of resolve and succinctness to it. Lots embedded in it to discover, including many sorts of buttons, a bennington marble, a bisque baby head (and a leg elsewhere too), a soldier tobacco tag, a