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Molded white clay body w/ white glaze. Oval form w/ flat bottom. Wide flat rim w/ shaped edge featuring a double-cyma curve at each end. Rim slants to a deep cavettoed well in conforming form. Printed brown mark: (Ermine folds)
platters
earthenware
Earthenware
Staffordshire
PLATTER
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Sampson Bridgwood & Son (Maker)
Longton, England, Staffordshire
18.625 (W) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.177
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