Salt-glazed stoneware sander, iron-oxide dip around exterior, round, flat-top with holes. Sanders held powdered gum sandarac, which, when sprinkled on paper, prevented ink smearing. Strictly an eighteenth and early nineteenth-century form, stoneware potters rarely manufactured sanders by 1825.
circa 1812-1819
Ceramic
1.75 H x 3 W inches
1955.20.4
11315
Gift of Miss Agnes Perine and Mrs. Edith Perine Reinhardt
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