Large English slipware dish, round and deep with notched edge. Off buff-brown clay; its face covered with brown and yellow combed slip decoration of fine herringbone pattern between stripes of combing.
chargers (platters)
redware
combing (yarn-making)
glazing (coating)
molding (forming)
slip (clay)
herringbone
stripes
Redware
Slip
Pressed
Combed
Notched
Herringbone
Striped
Lead Glazed
Charger
Red paint on bottom underside: RLW/Howe Family/Northboro since 1775 Pencil on bottom underside: Howe/Northboro
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.690
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