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Earthenware charger; polychrom bird design; buff-colored clay body with shite tin glaze overall; circular form with wide slightly dished rim and deep well with poorly defined cavetto; overall painted decoration in mineral colors: mottled yellow and blue background with two partridges on low flowering branch; marshy effect on bottom.
chargers (platters)
earthenware
tin glaze
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Faience
Tin Glazed
Lead Glaze
Charger
Used At Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
13 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth Vaughan
1949.702
Europe
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