✅ SOLVED Very Unusual Piece of Pottery Recovered from New York State

[ipsilateral]

This odd ceramic shard was recovered from low tide of a tidal river last week East of New York City by a friend. There appears to be some written language on it (almost resembling runes). The piece is approximately palm-sized. Anyone care to provide info on age, origin use?

 

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[vhs07]

Strange, but for some reason I'm craving Oreo's
Seriously though, that's a cool piece.

 

[ipsilateral]

Thanks, DCMatt. Yeah, I've never seen anything like it. I'm surprised none of my old friends have weighed in on this thing. No one's ever seen anything like it?

 

[Bramblefind]

I'll just throw this out for more discussion b/c I really don't know... but maybe it is a piece from a Bartmann / Bellarmine jug. There are so many designs. Here is one with some similarities --

From a Single Owner Collection Vignette, with Details of Each Piece, Ad11-11

Bartmann jug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[shawninNY]

Bramble got it!

 

[ipsilateral]

Wow, that's a great ID! Thank you, Bramblefind!

 

[ATpro5]

Amazing ID.... that one blew my mind.

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

How in the world?? Amazing ID