Leeds-type heavy white clay body w/ blue-tinted pearled glaze. Rectangular form w/ corners canted. Flat rim cants slightly to conforming well. Rim edge w/ simple molded feather-edge border design, painted cobalt-blue.
platters
earthenware
Earthenware
Staffordshire
PLATTER
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
10.25 (W) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.257
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