Dark and Craggy Antique Stoneware/Redware Memory Jug, Sealed Forever LAVATER Clearly it once was used

Clearly it once was used

with a UL Certified Electric Sign sticker on each

but a few light creases

I'm not quite sure if the bird was inlaid or just incised very finely and then painted/stained a slightly stronger red--but of it feels now like this happy surprise

the wooden form itself measures 9 3/4" long x 2 3/4" wide x 4" tall

Dark and Craggy Antique Stoneware/Redware Memory Jug, Sealed Forever LAVATER Clearly it once was usedI 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