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Bowl

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Footless bowl, tapering slightly from shoulder to base, with low neck, wide mouth, rounded lip. On cream-colored clay body, brown mat glaze ground mottled with black; four shallowly modeled flame-like forms encircling bowl mat-glazed with dark red over tan; lip and neck dark red over tan with irregular blackish-red streaking.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Maker
W. E. Hentschel
Date
1913
Credit Line
Gift of Ruth Friedman in memory of Harry G. Friedman
Medium
earthenware, glaze
Type
ceramics
Decorative Arts
Bowl
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