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Footed Wheildon-type with mottled or "tortoise shell" colored lead glazes, the outside decorated with two raised foliate decorations.
bowls (vessels)
glazing (coating)
ceramic (material)
tortoise shell
Creamware
BOWL
Paper label on bottom underside: ""LOT NO./REMARKS"" [apparently the remainder of an auction house label].
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 3/4 (H), 5 7/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.179
England (United Kingdom) [country]
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