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Bowl

United States

1845-1875

Measurements

3-1/8 in x 10-7/8 in (dia)

Materials

Mottled brown lead glaze on yellow earthenware (Rockinghamware)

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, anonymous gift

Accession Number

2020.38

Inscription

“169” is impressed into the molded surface of the outside bottom.

Condition Notes

The bowl has a dime-sized glaze flake in the inside bottom.  The flake has been colored to blend in.

Comments

The circular bowl has straight sidewalls that cant outward.  The mottled glaze inside the bowl has blurred along the bottom of the sidewalls but is more sharply mottled on the bottom.

Other bowl with the same "169" mark are accession nos. 2020.36 and 2020.44.