Anyone know what this is ?

[Dale Stokes]

I dug this at a site in Savannah, Georgia,can anyone identify what it is,it’s stoneware

 

[seniorscuba1]

I'm not entirely sure it looks to me like some kind of a makeup application container turn of the century, the only thing I've scene some what like it was the crock toothpaste container from the mid 1870s, but I believe they were smaller

 

[Dale Stokes]

That may very well be,for years I thought it maybe a stuff container.

 

[yacorie]

Looks like a crucible of some sort to me - something that could have been heated in a fire.

 

[Dale Stokes]

Yacorie,you could be right thanks for the info.

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

Could also be an English Marmalade crock from the late 19th century, although usually they seem a bit bigger.

 

[bweather]

I dug this at a site in Savannah, Georgia,can anyone identify what it is,it’s stoneware

Looks like a crucible for gold. Found a bunch of them out West

 

[kostgar]

Just an idea - a Stilton cheese container.

 

[Van]

Yes ! A crucible for melting down metals

 

[CanadianBottles]

I've found some pretty similar stoneware jars in a dump full of British food bottles. Not sure what they contained but I'm assuming it was some sort of spread. I'm not sure about it being a crucible because of the groove around the lip, never seen a crucible that had one of those and I've seen plenty of stoneware jars that did.