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Culture:American
Title:stove support or stove lift
Date Made:ca. 1860
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed red earthenware (redware); manganese black lead glaze
Place Made:United States; Pennsylvania
Measurements:overall: 4 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 11.4 cm x 12.1 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2014.4.54.1
Credit Line:William T. Brandon Memorial Collection of American Redware and Ceramics
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Thrown earthenware, conical-shaped support with curved rim and flat top, base of support is scratch decorated with three lines - two straight lines with a wavy line within. The whole piece of covered with manganese black lead glaze. Roughness to the body and glaze on the tops of the supports where it would have been placed beneath a heating or cook stove.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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