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Soap Dish

Collection Type

  • Household accessories

Date

1825-1875

GUSN

GUSN-3131

Description

Redware soapdish, small and round with rounded sides and a flat outflared rim, covered with an orange-red lead glaze with dark/black specks throughout. Part of a toiletry set.

Details

Descriptive Terms

soap dishes
lead glaze
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Lead Glaze
Thrown
DISH, SOAP

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

191.1631

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1.25 (H), 4 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1631

Places

Maine (United States)

Related Items

Title Cup Accession Number 1991.1632

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