Small oval dish

1820-1840

Measurements

1-5/8 in x 3-1/2 in x 3 in

Materials

Silver luster glazed white earthenware

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp

Accession Number

1959.3574

Provenance

Ex coll. H Rodney Sharp

Comments

This little molded dish, decorated with vertical ribs around the body and a gentle scalloping around the rim, has a silver lusterware (lustre) glaze over an earthenware body.  The small size of the dish suggests that it might have been used for salt or a similar condiment.  Salt corrodes silver, making this similar-looking vessel an appropriate substitute.

For another example of silver luster, see a pitcher, accession no. 1971.819.