Slip cup

Judah R. Teaney American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 704

This highly ornamented cup is a potter’s decorating tool. It accommodates four quills through which slip, or liquid clay, could flow. With it, the potter could draw four parallel lines at once.

Slip cup, Judah R. Teaney (born 1814), Earthenware; Redware with incised decoration, American

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