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Punch Bowl
c. 1756-1763x 16 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in.
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mr. Van Buren Lamb
Accession Number:
1974.6.4
An English Delftware punch bowl. It has a blue, tin glazed decoration. The outside of the bowl has floral sprays with a cross-hatched border along the rim. The inside is inscribed, "May Brittains Arms Successfull Prove then healths weel Drink to those we love." Probably in commemoration of Britain's participation in the Seven Years' War It was once owned by Thomas Anderson (1710-1761), a British army surgeon who settled in Lyme.
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inside bowl