Description:
Bowl or dish perhaps made in an industrial setting using a jolly, bowl is round with steep sides and flat round bottom; bowl is thick and has a coating of white slip on the inner surface; the slip is decorated with stripes of cobalt blue in a fence pattern; the sides and bottom are covered with a brownish slip over a greyish brown stoneware clay, on the underside of the base is an impressed mark "THOMPSON/....IRONSTONE/HARTSHORNE POTTERY/ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH" with in a banner? outline; also there is the number "120" in red; Condition: the piece has a significant 7 inch + crack from the edge of the bowl to the center; the inner surface of the bowl is very stained, and the backside of the bowl has evidence of soot and dirt from cooking. This object was originally in the collection of Burton N. Gates, his notes on this object state: "Dish or bowl. Stoneware, brown glaze outside: white inside with cobalt lines crossing. 2 1/4 in. high. x 8 in. Marked. impressed with marginal outline indistinct, [drawing of mark], col. 1913, Rochester?, N.H./ Ashby de la Zouch in Leistershire, Eng."
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