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Culture:English
Title:vases
Type:Household Accessory; Container
Materials:ceramic: red earthenware, copper lustre (lusterware), overglaze polychrome enamels
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire (probably)
Measurements:overall: 3 7/8 in.
Accession Number:  HD 69.0341
Credit Line:Transfer from the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, bequest of C. Alice Baker
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Pair of English lusterware vases decorated with multi-colored floral decoration and copper lustre. They were bought by Miss C. Alice Baker (1833-1909) in Cambridge, England. Their copper lustre decoration is created by applying gold salts to the red earthenware body, where in the heat of the kiln the metal is deposited as a thin layer on the surface.

Subjects:
Pottery; Copper; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome

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