Description: Treen or wooden circular bowl with well-used, discolored interior dark brown surface. The exterior has an incised band around outside edge of the rim, and a flat foot encircled with a raised molded band and incised groove. Treen, which was a very inexpensive choice for tablewares, was turned or carved from locally available wood and cost only a few pence to purchase. Although used by many, by the mid-18th century wooden ware dishes had become considered unrefined for a genteel dining table.
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