Unknown American
Dish

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CultureAmerican

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Dish

Datec. 1800–1840

Made inPennsylvania, United States

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (redware)

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

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

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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