Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair yellow and white with terrific patina

with terrific patina

20"long x 3/4" wide and deep

This is my favorite trade card I've found

as they were pretty dear

all constructed of

Huge Early Yellowware Bowl with Old Make Do Wire (and Remnants of Leather) Repair yellow and white with terrific patinaA big, beautiful early yellowware bowl, 19th century (unmarked, un banded, un footed, i. e. the very best sort I think) made special by a fat old wire repair along the lip, backed by what I believe is a now much hardened piece of leather on the outside, which looks to be the remnant of what was once a strip that ran all along the crack, leaving a stain behind. I find it all very beautiful, with the character of the repair perfectly matching the