Description:
Unusual footed redware cup or chalice, cup has large tapered cylindrical bowl, a stem with knop, and a round foot, the bowl is decorated with a scored line between two rouletted zig zag borders; surface of the cup is orange with flecks and specks of manganese brown, at the base of the bowl there is a large quantity of pooled blackish- metallic looking lead glaze, the surface of the object is somewhat irregular and pitted; the base of the cup is flat but there is evidence that the glaze has crept or moved over the surface; there is an applied red number on the base - "7.", Condition: rim piece broken and reglued. Has been conserved. Origin: probably central Pennsylvania, c. 1880-1900. Originally part of the Burton N. Gates Collection; a note card for this object in the Gates papers reads: "7/ Goblet./ Col. Spfld, Mass. 1911 Salv A. (army) Red clay. Poorly glazed. Speckled. undecipherable word?/ Looks like (moulded?) turned. 5.5 x 4 in. diam." A similar goblet is shown in Jeannette Lasansky's, Central Pennsylvania Redware Pottery, 1780-1904, p. 37.
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