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Flinty Enamel Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1830-1899

GUSN

GUSN-8515

Description

Small size with sides rounded in to rolled foot. Covered all over with characteristic dark brown mottled glaze on cream/yellowish ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bowls (vessels)
glazing (coating)
throwing (pottery technique)
Rockingham ware (American ceramics style)
Earthenware
Rockingham
Thrown
Glazed
Flint Enamel
Bowl

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 1/2 x 5 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.729

Places

Possibly Ohio (United States)

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