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Redware porringer with straight tapered sides and a somewhat warped deep bowl. It has a tooled band 3/4" below the rim and also a strap handle. It is covered overall with a deep brown/black glaze.
porringers (dishes)
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Lead Glazed
Thrown
Porringer
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 5/8 x 5 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.735
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