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It is a high-sided redware bowl, of medium size, on raised feet. It is thrown with a banded interior and covered with a deep orange/rust glaze with flecks and some dark brown streaks.
bowls (vessels)
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Bowl
Stamped on the bottom is: JUGTOWN/WARE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Jugtown Pottery (Maker)
NC, USA
4 (H), 6 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.739
North Carolina (United States)
Seagrove (Randolph county, North Carolina)
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