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White clay body with pearl glaze; deep rectanguloid bowl form with canted and lobed corners with molded scroll border design and squared handles at each side conforming molded foot; blue transfer decoration of central romanticized scene of Gothic ruins with three tourists at right; elaborate medieval style leafy scroll border with stylized floral reserves.
vegetable dishes
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
ruins
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Transfer Printed
Ruin
Gothic Revival
DISH, VEGETABLE
Impressed: ""ADAMS""
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Adams (Maker)
England, STAFFORDSHIRE; England, Staffordshire
2.5 x 12.625 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1045
Fall 1996, p. 47-57
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