Dark and Craggy Antique Stoneware/Redware Memory Jug, Sealed Forever inuit stone head with the interior carved out

with the interior carved out tapering/narrowing as if just large enough to accommodate the mouse’s nose at the deepest point

came from an estate in Newburyport

I am completely taken with this little ringmaster (look at those pink cheeks

and a great old surface

Just completely earnest and open

Dark and Craggy Antique Stoneware/Redware Memory Jug, Sealed Forever inuit stone head with the interior carved outI like the idea of memory jugs but it's not very often I come across one that really love as a thing. This dark and densely packed and super visceral one won me right away though, including for the fact of it having been sealed up tight long ago, and feeling as if holding all sorts of histories and mysteries (and what sounds like sand or maybe even ashes inside.) It appears to me that over time it has seen additions in response to losses; included on