Round with deep rounded sides. Thrown and notched edged. Face covered with brick-red glaze and slip decoration in three plume-like wavy patterned lines. Unglazed back.
chargers (platters)
glazing (coating)
redware
slip (clay)
throwing (pottery technique)
lead glaze
Redware
Slip
Notched
Thrown
Lead Glazed
Charger
Impressed on bottom underside: 6 [or 9]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1.25 (H), 10.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.711
Pennsylvania (United States)
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