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Food Mold

Object/Artifact

A heavy molded and white glazed ironstone mold for gelatins and jellies. The oval shaped mold has a deeply Scalloped rim with straight sided flutes descending into the well. The exterior of the mold is then stepped in to a flat band, thence to a diminishing band to a flat, unfooted glazed base. The interior is heavily glazed with white glaze. The fluted sides terminate in a scalloped ridge, thence to a deeply indented well. The well is molded with a four diamond pointed side element, thence to an ocean swirl wtih three wells, two convex, the center one concave.

2008.005.101

Beulah Marshall Bailey Collection

1860 - 1920

Jelly Mold

Food Mold

Gelatin Mold

Pudding Mold

4-3/8 in

5-1/4 in

4 in

7 in

Depth measured from top to interior bottom.

Clay

Glaze

Yellow Ware: The Transitional Ceramic. Leibowitz, Joan. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen PA. 1985.

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