Description:
Circular dish made from stoneware, the dish is rather deep sided and has several pierced holes within, the dish has a circular base with a molded edge, Impressed mark “6” on side of the dish. Covered all over in a red glaze. The base of the soap dish shows characteristic concentric marks of using a wire to take the piece off the wheel while still rotating on the potter’s wheel. Inscribed in ink on the bottom of the base, “Col. Milford, Mass./ Dec. 1909” and in red paint, “10” Formerly part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. Condition: The rim of the soap dish has several chips of glaze missing on the upper rim as well as glaze chips along the lower rim. Original note card for #10 object does not survive in Gates papers. This could be #76, "Soap Dish./ Col. Milford, Mass. Dec. 1909. Stoneware: brown opaque glaze./ 4.5 in diam."
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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