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Round with face covered with orange glaze. Inscription in white/yellow slip inside squiggly lines. Tiny tooled notches to edge. Unglazed back.
chargers (platters)
glazing (coating)
redware
slip (clay)
lead glaze
Charger
Decoration on front: AMERICA Remians of paper label on reverse: [Torn and mostly illegible, but says something pertaining to its being ""decorated"" with a certain type of ""slip cup"". Probably double-holed cup.]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Connecticut
2 (H), 12 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.717
Probably Norwalk (Fairfield county, Connecticut)
Connecticut (United States)
Probably Pennsylvania (United States)
Possibly New Jersey (United States)
Possibly Norwalk (Fairfield county, Connecticut)
Probably
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