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It makes for an unusual memento mori — though not, perhaps, as strange as a 19th-century yellow-glazed redware flask in the shape of an English outhouse.

“She has descended to common redware.”

The Pennsylvania Germans produced the handsome ceramics known as redware and vibrantly painted furniture.

These thieves target archaeological sites and may conspire with shadowy middlemen, who employ consultants to appraise the value of, say, a burnished redware pot from the late Roman period or a 7th-century Umayyad painted jar.

Steve: The rock duo Best Coast, the redware pottery of Lauren Mundy, and the late Peter Kaplan, celebrated editor of The New York Observer.