Handled red earthenware bowl with wide flat rim and connected strap handle above sharply tapered insides. Inside and handle glazed black. Outside glazed orange/red. Incised lines below rim.
pitchers (vessels)
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Glazed
Pitcher, Batter
Handwritten on NFL paper jelly label at bottom underside: From Buckley,/South Wales./ 1690-1750-/Imported to/early America
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Buckley Pottery (Maker)
England, South Wales
3 3/4 x 9 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.398
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