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Washbowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1834-1867

GUSN

GUSN-8476

Description

Deep and round with tapered base to form raised foot. Rim has pie-crust edge; sides lightly incised with bands of wavy lines. Covered overall with orange-colored glaze with dark brown (iron) splotches inside and out.

Details

Descriptive Terms

washbowls
fluting
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
iron (metal)
fluting
Redware
Thrown
Incised
Fluted
Lead Glazed
BOWL

Inscription

Typed on paper label on botton underside: Washbowl made by/""Uncle Joe Hazel-/ton"" just above what/is now St. Paul's/School, Concord, N.H.

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Hazeltine, Joseph (Maker)

Location of Origin

Concord, NH, USA

Dimensions

4 3/4 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.691

Places

New Hampshire (United States)
Massachusetts (United States)

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