Redware porringer, of rounded form and with a flared rim, on a low foot. It has a rim to body loop handle and is covered overall with a deep brown/black lead glaze.
porringers (dishes)
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Porringer
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2.75 x 5.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.732
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