Lot 243
  • 243

Miniature Redware Plate with Slip Decoration of Bird , Fair Lawn, New Jersey, circa 1800

Estimate
500 - 700 USD
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Description

  • stoneware
  • 3 7/8 in.
Circular concave dish with molded lip, decorated on the surface with a small bird in green and yellow slip. 

Provenance

Found at Garretson Forge and Farm, Fair Lawn, New Jersey;
Alice Lake, Wycoff, New Jersey.

Exhibited

Traveling Exhibition, The Pulse of the People: New Jersey 1763-1789, Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum; Newark, New Jersey, The New Jersey Historical Society, January 17, 1976 – June 16, 1976; 
River Edge, New Jersey, Steuben House, Bergen County Folk Art, October 15-23, 1983.

Literature

Suzanne Corlette [et al], Pulse of the People: New Jersey 1763-1789, (Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey State Museum, 1976), p. 204, cat. no. 341;
Betty Schmelz, Charles B. Szeglin, Kevin Wright, and Irene Fitzgerald, The Tree of Life: Selections from Bergen County Folk Art, (Bergen County Historical Society, 1983), p. 18, fig. 17. 

Condition

Some loses and chips in the paint and some rim chips
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