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Maker(s):Old Deerfield Pottery
Culture:American
Title:vase
Date Made:1933-1941
Type:Household Accessory
Materials:ceramic: earthenware; blue and brown glazes
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Deerfield
Accession Number:  HD 2012.5.11
Credit Line:Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Minor Antiques
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Thrown vase coated with layer of blue glaze on the exterior and brown glaze on the interior; incised mark on the reverse, "OLD/ DEERFIELD/ MASS". The rim of this object is broken and the piece is covered in some paint. This collection of objects was owned by Stephen Maniatty, a painter who lived in Deerfield, MA. It may have been used in the artist's studio to contain paint brushes. This object was made by Edward "Ted" Norman (1911-2005), who worked as an arts and crafts potter at the Bloody Brook Tavern in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the 1930s - 1950's.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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