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Orangey-buff colored clay body w/ colorless glaze. Molded form. Pitcher w/ bulbous body swelling out from a basal ring. Very slightly tapered inward to undefined neck and terminating in a well-shaped spouted mouth w/ C-shaped handle extended at back. Exterior buff colored w/ overglaze painted decoration of Greek key border and black line banding.
pitchers (vessels)
earthenware
Earthenware
PITCHER
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
8 x 7.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.419.1
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