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Delftware decanter with four widely fluted sides below short, narrow neck, with overall blue hand-painted flora and fauna decoration; fitted later as base for electric lamp with pierced paper shade.
electric lamps (lighting device components)
decanters
delftware
earthenware
hand-painted
molding (forming)
glazing (coating)
tin glaze
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Molded
Delftware
Lamp, Electric
Printed paper label on bottom underside: ""596"" [possibly old auction number label, perhaps from the Crane Estate sale, Ipswich].
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 1/2 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.160
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