Bowl
- Object Name:
- Bowl
- Object ID:
- 1965.523
- Date:
- circa 1700
- Description:
- Bowl. Tin glazed earthenware (delft). Round bowl with plain rim, deep foot ring. Exterior completely covered with sponge decoration in dark purple with several large flowers. The flowers are hand painted blue lines with gold highlights. Rim has a white band. Foot ring has a blue band with two white bands above it. Interior of bowl is white with a bluish hue and has two blue circles which are hand painted. Interior and exterior glaze has numerous divets. Interior of rim appears to have a finger print in purple. No maker's mark seen.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Tin-glazed - Dimensions:
- H-4.3 Dia-8.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Frank Albert Watson prior to 1965. Undated newspaper clipping (in accession folder) provides this provenance: "This punch bowl once belonged to Lydia Bradley, daughter of Isaac Bradley of Haverhill, Mass. . . . Isaac Bradley grew to manhood and became a leading citizen of Haverhill. He married and had a daughter, Lydia, who married a man named Heath, and this punch bowl may have been given her as a wedding present by her father. Lydia had two children, Mehitable, born 1737, and Betsy, born 1740. . . . Mehitable, who inherited the punch bowl, was married to Daniel Stevens of Plaistow, who came to Salisbury, N.H. in 1768. In 1769 they had a daughter Susan, who was married to Daniel Fellows in 1789. Daniel Fellows and his wife had a daughter Lydia, born in 1794. The daughter was named for Lydia Bradley, and so the punch bowl naturally came to her. She married Moses Watson . . . . Moses and Lydia had a son Albert, born in 1820, who was the father of Frank Albert Watson, the donor of the punch bowl."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Frank A. Watson
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