food container (food processing & storage)

Stoneware pot, for lingonberry jam. Pale brown stoneware pot, decorated in red and green glaze with lingonberries and leaves. There is an inscription on the side, reading 'PÅ / LINGONRÖDA / TUVOR', the three first words of a well known Swedish song called Flickorna i Småland (The girls in Småland). Sweden.

For lingonberry jam, but also perhaps a souvenir of Smaland. See commentaries.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2017.97
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 120 mm x 95 mm x 95 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
stoneware; glaze
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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