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Oval bowl

Probably Pennsylvania

1800-1875

Measurements

3-1/8 in x 18 in x 11-5/8 in

Materials

Yellow slip-decorated glazed red earthenware (redware)

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison

Accession Number

1969.390

Condition Notes

The bowl has heavy wear on the inside bottom and along the rim.

Comments

The heavy and sizable bowl is rectangular with rounded corners.  The inside of the bowl is glazed; the outside is not.  The inside sidewalls are slip-decorated with several different variations of four parallel wavy lines, some long and some short.  The rim of the bowl varies in height due to wear.