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Redware covered bowl (aka ecuelle). Round with tapered sides and ear handle at each side. Grooved by the top below round domed lid with large round knop. Covered with brick red inside and out. Outside mottled with dark brown streaky spots; shiny patina.
covered bowls
cookware
lead glaze
glazing (coating)
molding (forming)
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
BOWL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 5 1/2 (HxW), 4 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.387
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