Possibly a cruet?

Mike

On 11/5/2010 8:55 PM, Justin Rego wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Could it just be a colloquial term for cast ceramic objects?
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Mark Branstner<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just got back from a ceramics exhibition in Milwaukee that focused on
>> Moravian ceramics from North Carolina ...
>>
>> Very, very good exhibition of slip-decorated and cast objects, including
>> all those really great figural bottles!
>>
>> My question is this ... Some of the smaller ceramic figures were described
>> as "casters" ... What the heck is a caster? A quick internet search found
>> nothing relevant.
>>
>> Thanks, Mark
>> --
>>
>> Mark C. Branstner, RPA
>> Historic Archaeologist
>>
>> Illinois State Archaeological Survey
>> Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> 209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
>> 23 East Stadium Drive
>> Champaign, IL 61820
>>
>> Phone: 217.244.0892
>> Fax: 217.244.7458
>> Cell: 517.927.4556
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> "There's absolutely nothing wrong with Marxism, so long as you stop at "A
>> Day At The Races." If you keep on with "At the Circus," etc., suddenly,
>> Marxism doesn't seem all that interesting and you start to look for
>> something a bit more competent, like Chaplinism or Stoogeism"  - Anonymous
>>
>> "I hope there's pudding" - Luna Lovegood (HP5)
>>
>
>