Rare Redware Dish with Two-Color Slip Floral Decoration, NC origin, probably Dennis Potteries, New Salem, Randolph County, NC, circa 1790-1832, thin-walled, flaring dish with rounded rim, decorated on the interior with a slip-trailed copper-and-manganese slip floral motif featuring a central dotted blossom flanked by daisy-like designs emanating from scrolled stems. Rim area elaborately decorated with a copper-and-manganese slip drape-and-swag motif interspersed with copper-slip foliate devices. Interior surface covered in a heavy lead glaze. Potters' fingerprints under rim on two sides, created when the dish was removed from the wheel. Related in style to dishes produced in the Moravian tradition of North Carolina, examples from this Quaker School are significantly rarer. Literature: For a related dish, see Pugh and Pugh, "The Quaker Ceramic Tradition in Piedmont North Carolina," Ceramics in America 2010, fig. 13. Good condition for pieces of this origin. A very old, shallow 1 1/4" rim chip. Other small rim chips. Edge between rim and well has some wear and an in-the-firing contact mark. Some light surface wear/haze to interior center. Diam. 10 1/8".
