Dish

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Dish

Datec. 1915–1930

Made inNeiffer, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (redware) with slip and sgraffito

Dimensions2 3/8 × 12 1/2 in. diameter (6 × 31.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.62.12

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Kilroy Center

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Bayou Bend

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CERAMICS

DescriptionPotters in many regions of colonial America and the early United States made red-bodied earthenware from local clay. Pennsylvania-German potters sometimes applied a layer of slip or thin, liquid clay over the red clay, and then cut through the slip layer to expose the red clay beneath. This plate employs this technique, called sgraffito, to create the design of tulips and pinwheels. Metallic oxide created the blotches of green.
Provenance[Whimsey Antiques, Arlington, Vermont]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1962; given to MFAH, by 1966.

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