Miner's Birdcage Feeding Dish

Item Information

Title:
Miner's Birdcage Feeding Dish
Description:
Small redware bird food dish with short handle at the top with hole for dipping rod; wider rough hewn bottom; unglazed outside with clear lead glaze inside, intended for use in a miner's canary cage
Date:
1775–1850
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
glazing (coating process)
lead glaze
redware
dishes (vessels for food)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Redware
Lead Glazed
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
2 in. x 1 1/2 in. (H x W)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/2608
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.826
Identifier:
2608