English delftware flower brick, of rectangular 'brick' shape with sunken top fitted with multiple holes outlined in blue, all sides decorated wtih chinoiserie-style landscape scenes executed in underglaze cobalt blue.
vases
earthenware
molding (forming)
glazing (coating)
tin glaze
underglazing
tin (metal)
Chinoiserie
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Molded
Underglazed
Chinoiserie
VASE, FLOWER
Handwritten on a sticker label on the bottom underside is written in NFL's hand: ""LIVERPOOL/DELFT/C 1760""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2.5 x 4.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1343
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