Bristol delftware charger, with scalloped edge and deep, curved well, displaying Bianco-Sopa-Bianco decoration and chinoiserie landscape to center in underglaze blue, [illeg.] purple and some overglaze yellow.
chargers (platters)
delftware
earthenware
molding (forming)
glazing (coating)
tin glaze
oxidation
tin (metal)
Chinoiserie
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Tin Oxide
Molded
Chinoiserie
Delftware
Bianco Sopra Bianco
CHARGER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Bristol, England
13.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.500
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