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Deep redware dish with notched edge, its face covered with dark orange glaze and inscribed with verse; unglazed on back.
chargers (platters)
redware
slip (clay)
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Slip
Thrown
Charger
Slip decoration on front: ""A/Mince Pie/related with/good Brandy/is one of the/best Dishes.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
12 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.689
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