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Plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1815-1850

GUSN

GUSN-8511

Description

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.

Details

Descriptive Terms

plates (dishes)
glazing (coating)
redware
slip (clay)
tin (metal)
Redware
Tin Glazed
Slip
Plate

Inscription

Typed paper label (NFL) on bottom underside: Seymour, Hartford or/Brooks, Goshen?/WATKINS 45, 47

Associated Building

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

Maker

Possibly Brooks, Hervey (Maker)
Possibly Brooks Pottery (Maker)
Possibly Seymour Pottery (Maker)

Location of Origin

Goshen, CT, USA; Hartford, CT, USA

Dimensions

1 1/2 x 9 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.724

Places

Connecticut (United States)

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