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Description:
English pearlware white leaf-shaped, shallow dish press-molded with the veins of a leaf in the well, a blue serrated edge, and an applied footrim. "Pickle shells" or "pickle leaves" were popular forms for elegant dining tables. Imitiating naturalistic forms such as shells and leaves, British earthenware potters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries produced large quantities of both creamware and pearlware forms. George Washington's large order for "Queens Ware" or creamware contained the request for twelve "Leaves or shells

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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