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English deltware punch bowl, its straight sides have a slightly outflared rim and are on a straight foot. It has a white ground with hand-painted underglaze decoration in blue, green and iron red; the outside is decorated with Persian-like trefoils with flowers alternating with floral motifs above the peafowls and rim motif. The inside has loose calligrapher scrolls with a conforming central stylized floral motif.
punch bowls
delftware
earthenware
painting (coating)
throwing (pottery technique)
underglazing
Earthenware
Thrown
Painted
Underglazed
Delftware
BOWL, PUNCH
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Bristol, England
5.375 (H), 10 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1198
Probably
Probably
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