Medium size, round with deep well. Face covered with rusty brown glaze; slip decoration in rings of wavy and straight lines; sunburst-like circles at center. Unglazed back.
plates (dishes)
glazing (coating)
redware
slip (clay)
tin (metal)
Redware
Tin Glazed
Slip
Plate
Typed paper label (NFL) on bottom underside: Seymour, Hartford or/Brooks, Goshen?/WATKINS 45, 47
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Brooks, Hervey (Maker)
Possibly Brooks Pottery (Maker)
Possibly Seymour Pottery (Maker)
Goshen, CT, USA; Hartford, CT, USA
1 1/2 x 9 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.724
Connecticut (United States)
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