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Redware batter pitcher of wide bowl form with straight sides that flare toward the rim; subtle spout and reeded strap handle. Covered with orange-red glaze. Outside decorated with brown sponged splotches and rouletted band.
pitchers (vessels)
cookware
glazing (coating)
redware
sponging
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
reeding
roulettes (engraving tools)
Redware
Thrown
Sponged
Reeding
Roulettework
Lead Glazed
Pitcher, Batter
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 1/4 x 9 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.391
Probably Pennsylvania (United States)
Probably
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