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Culture:American
Title:dish
Date Made:c. 1860
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed red earthenware (redware), white slip
Place Made:United States; Pennsylvania
Measurements:Overall: 1 3/8 in x 7 11/16 in; 3.5 cm x 19.5 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2014.4.20
Credit Line:William T. Brandon Memorial Collection of American Redware and Ceramics
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Drape molded dish with a coggled rim; the interior is decorated with white slip from a slip cup, the pattern has six dots, two lines, twleve dots, two lines, and then eight dots. Condition: glaze surface is crackled all over, chip to glaze on rim edge, the reverse of dish has been exposed to a fire and the surface is bubbled, black, and pitted'; as well as caked with soot as well as some of the ceramic in the center of the dish as liquified or come off?

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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