Small round buff-colored earthenware dish (or shallow bowl) with rounded sides. Delicately tooled notched rim and distinctive bright yellow glaze on face. Splash of yellow on underside.
bowls (vessels)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Earthenware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Bowl
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.416
Possibly Vermont (United States)
Possibly
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