Eventually this will expand and contract if the bowl is subject to heat and cold-so best not to use this bowl for any hot or cold food preparations or storage. The small L shape mark at 6 o'clock-is the bump that caused the criss-cross outside, and it has begun to craze making the bowl vulnerable because whatever has been in the bowl, can seep into those discolored fissures.
the smaller ones are quite angular and those larger than 12" become wide and squat. Here you can see the draping in the raised relief pattern ending at the foot, which are perfect design details for a cottage style home. This shape with the banding and the rim.has what is called a draped-square bottom. However, American potteries produced only 40% of the US market's needs in the mid to late 1800's. Usually these do not detract from the value.Įarly yellow wares were made in England, and later potteries throughout the Ohio River Valley began producing yellow-bodied wares with clear glazes and banding from the 1840's on. The bowl's clay body is a deep yellow/tan stoneware with multiple imperfections resulting in glaze flaws and clay impurities typical of utilitarian wares of that period. (small pinhloles in the glaze usually 3 or 4) Surprisingly the foot of the bowl shown is also glazed, meaning the pot was fired on its rim or stilted (pronged-high temperature stilts) on the inside as there are no stilt marks on this foot. The bowl is simply marked USA on the squared bottom, this design is most attributed to McCoy, and prior to 1930.
It really is large, just short of 12" wide. My NEW OLD bowl in a close-up shows the the detail from the mold, the edges are quite crisp and clean, the top rim is unglazed and probably had been waxed to repell the dipped glaze.