Dark and Craggy Antique Stoneware/Redware Memory Jug, Sealed Forever early primitive watercolor with nine lovely blonde wood

with nine lovely blonde wood pins and a cool ball

and a few other little edge bits missing from the lid

I do force myself to resist a lot of them

with some smudges and stains that I think only enhance its moody underwater feel

I'd put it somewhere where I'd see it every single day

Dark and Craggy Antique Stoneware/Redware Memory Jug, Sealed Forever early primitive watercolor with nine lovely blonde woodI 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