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Orange bowl

Bowl and lid
Maker:  Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Earthenware, lead-glazed (creamware)
1879
Orange bowl
Bowl and lid
Maker:  Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Earthenware, lead-glazed (creamware)
1879
Bowl and lid Maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Earthenware, lead-glazed (creamware) 1879
Status
Not on view
Date1879
Maker (1759-present)
Geography Made - England
DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 9 in. x 9 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. (22.86 cm x 24.13 cm x 21.59 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2001
Object numberM-4107/A-B
DescriptionCircular, molded and pierced creamware orange bowl with matching domed lid. The body of the basket and lid are each formed from an interlocking design of bellflower drops and festoons framed by opposing, foliated, C-scrolls. The basket has a border of pierced ovals around its rim and two reeded and twisted loop handles attached on opposite ends of it. It stands on a trumpet pedestal foot molded with a spiral pattern and a laurel wreath border at its lower edge. The lid has a flower knob at top center and a convex lower rim with a repeating pattern of ovals and small beads. Pale cream body with a clear glaze, crazed all over, having a greenish-yellow cast.
MarkingsImpressed on the underside of the foot: "WEDGWOOD" and "T/ AWH".
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