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Pearlware bowl of boat shape with rolled-over ends on oval-based pedestal foot. Decorated with underglaze-blue transfer-print scenes of "Dr. Syntax", with fleur-de-lys on scroll ends.
cheese dishes
glazing (coating)
molding (forming)
pearlware
transfer printing
Empire (style)
Dish, Serving
Dish, Cheese
Dish, Cheese
Impressed on bottom underside: [Clews mark] Transfer printed on bottom underside: Doctor Syntax and the Gypsies [in decorative border]
Syntax, Dr.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Clews, James & Ralph (Maker)
Snow, Kenneth (Retailer)
Cobridge, England, Staffordshire
6 1/4 x 15 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.605
------------. "Ceramic Chinoiserie," Antiques Magazine, August 1941,. [No Publisher].
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