Redware dish of large and shallow rounded form with tooled finely-notched edge, its face covered with an orange glaze and inscibed in slip; back unglazed.
chargers (platters)
glazing (coating)
molding (forming)
redware
slip (clay)
Charger
Inscribed with slip on face: ""forgive / all injuries"" (in script).
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
14 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.430
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