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Dear Nancy,
Any possibilities your piece is a variant of lustreware? Lustreware tends
to have a red or reddish paste, often with a white slip covered by a clear
lead glaze with silver or other mineral added for lustre; some were
hand-painted, though the "country cottage" motif, often painted by
children, is, I think, more common than just floral dec. I've got the
Shire Album on lustre in the lab here & can go fetch it to give you the
reference if you think it might be useful. These items show up so often in
antique marts, which is where I got my own example (Tim Scarlett will be
pleased to know I dropped & broke it after showing it to my artifacts class
this semester), that I just thought that may be what you've got.
Cheers,
Mary B.
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Mary C. Beaudry
Editor, Northeast Historical Archaeology
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
tel. 617-353-3415
fax. 617-353-6800
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