fbpx

Vegetable Dish Cover

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1820-1840

GUSN

GUSN-3320

Description

A domed square form with slightly nitched corners and squared crabstock handle. It is decorated in blue transfer, showing a romantic scene of ruins, a castle, sheep and a shepherd- all within a floral border.

Details

Descriptive Terms

covers (overlying objects)
molding (forming)
pearlware
transfer printing
castles (fortifications)
ruins
scenes (depictions)
Pearlware
Molded
Transfer Printed
Castle
Scenic
Ruin
COVER, FOOD

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4 x 7.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1106

Reparative Language in Collections Records

Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].