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Culture:English
Title:bowl
Date Made:1780-1800
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze), underglaze cobalt blue
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire (probably)
Measurements:overall: 3 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.; 8.255 x 18.415 cm
Accession Number:  HD 56.039
Credit Line:Gift of Henry N. Flynt and Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English pearlware, circular bowl decorated in underglaze blue. The outer surface of bowl is decorated with a chinoiserie landscape with a pagoda-like building, willow trees, running fence, flying birds, and stylized foliage. The interior rim is encircled by a diamond diaper or trellis pattern; the bowl has an applied foot rim. A number of factories in England, including the Leeds Pottery, made this ware. It was used in Deerfield too, where many fragments have been found in the ground. E.H. Williams 1838 probate inventory.

Tags:
pagodas

Subjects:
glaze (coating by location); Enamel and enameling; Pottery; Pagodas

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