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| Maker(s): | Hartley, Greens, & Co. | | Culture: | British; English
| | Title: | Fruit dish
| | Date Made: | ca. 1783-1820
| | Type: | Food Service
| | Materials: | Ceramic; earthenware; refined earthenware (creamware)
| | Place Made: | Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; England; Leeds
| | Measurements: | overall: 3 1/4 in; 8.255 cm
| | Accession Number: | MH SK B.12.F.16.2
| | Credit Line: | Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
| | Museum Collection: | The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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Label Text: SKINNER CATALOGUE: Stoneware fruit dish or small cake plate. Leeds cream ware. Hard glaze, slightly greenish cream color, delicately pierced border and base suggestive of the silversmithing of the same period. Impressed: LEEDS POTTERY. There are some breaks in the pierced work. Cream colored ware, which resembles Wedgwood's Queen's ware, and pierced decorations are two of the most famous products from Leeds. See N.Y. Sun, 7/17/1937 Cat. 1934, 8/2/1937
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