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Piece from a dinner set. Stand for a sauce boat. White clay body w/ pearl blue glaze. Underglaze of brown transfer printed decoration in pattern called "Carolina/ R. Hall" (printed on body in brown). Features border of rococo-type cartouches w/ berry motif and striped diapers. Platter: shaped rectangular form. Deep well w/ romanticized Southern mansion scene w/ urn and classical buildings. Large stress crack.
platters
earthenware
transfer printing
mansions
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Carolina
Mansion
Platter
See description.
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Hall, Ralph (Maker)
Tunstall, England, Staffordshire
10.875 x 8.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.176.2
Snyder, Jeffrey B.. Romantic Staffordshire Ceramics. [No Publisher].
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