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Large boat-shaped covered bowl with high upturned flange. Its cover with incised decoration and large conforming finial. Thickly potted and covered overall with a rich dark-brown glaze.
sugar bowls
glazing (coating)
incising
redware
throwing (pottery technique)
tin (metal)
Empire (style)
Redware
Tin Glazed
Thrown
Incised
Empire
BOWL, SUGAR
Two handwritten labels on bottom underside: Label #1: Belonged to Mary Carter,/wife of the first Osborne/to make pottery in Bos-/cawen, N.H. Descended/in Durgin family, founders/of Boscawen pottery./Coll. Mr & Mrs. B.K. Little Label #2: New Hampshire [label unglued; in file]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.700A,B
Osborne Pottery (Maker)
Osborne, John (Maker)
Boscawen, NH, USA
6.5 x 7.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.700AB
New Hampshire (United States)
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