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Large English delfware punch bowl with tapered sides, curved at the bottom on a straight foot. The outside is covered with a manganese powder souffle' decoration and six quatrefoil reserves with underglaze floral motifs. Inside, there is a floral motif in the center medallion and a diaper/reserve patterned band near the rim.
punch bowls
delftware
earthenware
throwing (pottery technique)
glazing (coating)
tin glaze
underglazing
tin (metal)
Earthenware
Delftware
Underglazed
Thrown
Tin Glazed
BOWL, PUNCH
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5.25 x 12.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.501
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