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Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1868-1899

GUSN

GUSN-5979

Description

Yellow glazed utilitarian bowl with folded lip; scalloped double shell-like pattern in green underglaze on lip; outside bowl fluted with green underglaze at bottom of bowl, fading into yellow.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bowls (vessels)
earthenware
yellowware
Yelloware
Earthenware
BOWL

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

4 (H), 7.125 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.1071

Places

Possibly
Possibly

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