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.
soap dishes
lead glaze
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
Redware
Lead Glaze
Thrown
DISH, SOAP
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
191.1631
Unknown
1.25 (H), 4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1631
Maine (United States)
Title Cup Accession Number 1991.1632
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