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Redware bowl, small and thinly potted, with steeply tapered sides, ending in a raised foot. It has a tooled line below the top rim and is covered overall with a deep orange glaze, with some pooling of glaze to the inside center. It was probably used for a drinking vessel.
bowls (vessels)
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
BOWL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/2 x 4 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.737
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