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Octagonal creamware; Whieldon-type plate; molded with incised narrow line to edges; overall decoration of mottled black, brown blue and green lead glazes.
plates (dishes)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
molding (forming)
tortoise shell
Earthenware
Molded
Wheildon
Neoclassical
Lead Glazed
Plate
Paper label on reverse: [indistinct -- mostly scrathced off dealer or auction house label]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Wheildon, Thomas (Maker)
Staffordshire, England; England
8 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.583
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