Deep dish

1845-1870

Measurements

1-5/8 in x 10-1/2 in (dia)

Materials

Mottled brown lead glaze on yellow earthenware (Rockinghamware)

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp

Accession Number

1959.4219

Condition Notes

The dish exhibits small and faint craquelure in the glaze all over.  There are a few areas on the inside bottom where the glaze did not completely cover the surface.

Provenance

Ex coll. H. Rodney Sharp

Comments

This molded dish looks like a pie plate, but unlike them, it has a foot ring molded into the outside bottom.  The deep sidewalls that flare outward slightly at the rim suggest the more specific term of a deep dish for this particular object.