Description:
Both plain and slip-decorated plates and dishes were the common cooking and serving pieces and a staple at all potteries. Large, deep, draped molded, oblong loaf dish, the dish has a coggled edge, the surface of the dish is decorated with a four chamber slip cup design in white slip, the design has a border of squiggles or a braided rope design, and in the center are peaks and valley or a zig-zag design, the underside of the dish is unglazed, there is an ink inscription: Col. '10/ Northampton" and the number "65" in red paint. Condition: large glaze losses from the surface of the dish in two areas of the central design, some chips from the rim, Origin: probably Pennsylvania, Originally part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. The Gates note card for this object reads; "65/ Tray or platter/ Col. Northampton, 1910. Red clay, cream slip. same decoration as # 64. Oblong: 12 x 15.5 in: Bot at the time of no. 64." and later ink below, "#65 washed and studied/ Sept. 11, 1971"
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