Very small reware bowl, with a dark brown body (almost black) washed with a deep ochre-yellow glaze on the inside of the bowl with drippings to the outside; no foot, no flange, almost straight sides.
miniatures (toys)
bowls (vessels)
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
toys (recreational artifacts)
Redware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Bowl
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.827
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