English delftware punch bowl; large, deep sides and straight foot, with continuous scene around outside; figures in a landscape by castles; on inside is a medallion with castle; below floral and knot decoration; metal-wrapped foot with remnant of blue enamel coating; blue and white.
punch bowls
earthenware
hand-painted
throwing (pottery technique)
glazing (coating)
tin glaze
enamel (fused coating)
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Underglazed
Thrown
Castle
Bowl, Punch
On the bottom underside, handwritten on a paper label: ""From ?/ Court' near/Chepstow, Mon-/mouthshire.""
Used At Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 1/2 (H), 12 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1336
United Kingdom
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