Description:
Rectangular redware dish with yellow slip-trailed decoration and goggled edges, made in Huntington, Long Island, New York. The well is decorated with two matched geometric designs: an undulating circle around a plain circle around two intersecting lines, which extend through both circles. These restrained geometric slip-trailed shapes, usually with the circle and intersectings lines forming the base of the design, decorate the largest group of surviving Huntington dishes. The clay had to be worked several times. Beginning with clay that had been tempered, wedged, and divided into sections of predetermined weight, the potter rolled the mass into a slab at least 1/2" thick. Next, the potter cut shapes out of the clay with a disc cutter, and the flat clay forms were allowed to dry partially, and then slip trail decoration was applied. When this dried, the plate was molded with the design side facing downward, the edges were trimmed and finished with a notched decoration using a coggle wheel, and the dish and mold set to dry. The dry plate was removed from the mold and coated on the inside with a clear lead glaze. The potter probably used a template or other copying pattern to repeat the design.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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