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Redware porringer or cup, of wide and shallow teacup-like form, with an outflared rim above tapered sides, on a low outflared foot. It has a rim to base reeded strap handle, covered with deep orange speckled glaze and was thinly potted.
porringers (dishes)
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Lead Glazed
Thrown
PORRINGER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 x 5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.734
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