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Small redware bird food dish with short handle at the top with hole for dipping rod; wider rough hewn bottom; unglazed outside with clear lead glaze inside, intended for use in a miner's canary cage
dishes (vessels)
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
redware
Redware
Lead Glazed
Dish, Pet
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 x 1 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.826
Title Bird Cage Accession Number 1991.1209
Title Bird Food or Water Dish from Miner's Birdcage Accession Number 1991.825
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