Buff colored clay body with white tin glaze. Circular body with cylindrical neck, circular mouth and rounded lip. Tapered at bottom to a circular slightly canted foot. Over glaze decoration in the majolica style, with a cobalt blue field with yellow and green scrolling stylized floral motif. Scroll border at neck. Yellow banding at foot.
jardinières (containers)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
tin glaze
tin (metal)
maiolica
Planter
Jardinière
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Majolica
Jardinière
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
Italy
11.75 x 9.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.662
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