Bowl

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Bowl

Datec. 1740–1745

Made inEngland

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)

Dimensions3 1/2 × 7 in. diameter (8.9 × 17.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.60.19

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Massachusetts Room

On view

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Bayou Bend

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CERAMICS

DescriptionPotters made agate ware by combining and layering different colors of clay before forming the pots on the wheel or in molds. When thrown on a potter’s wheel, agate ware typically exhibits swirling spirals of color. The most elaborately patterned agate wares feature clays stacked in thin layers before rolling, slicing, and recombining the components into slabs that the potter pressed into molds. Complex forms like square teapots required multiple molds. This wheel-thrown bowl, with swirls of brown clay, also features splotches of green in its glaze.
Provenance[Ginsburg & Levy, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, March 8, 1960; given to MFAH, by 1966.
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