Bowl

Ring foot with double-bevel profile; wheel-tooled grooving on underside; constricted, very low stem. Wall plain; conical profile. In the center of the interior is an applique female head in high relief in 3/4 view turned to left. Thick wreath (?); drapery frames face and is thrown back over right shoudler. A line of small circles impressed beneath glaze around medallion. Interior profile stepped back at middle of wall; on the ledge so formed is a line of egg pattern impressed beneath the glaze. Lines wheel-run beneath glaze: one below ledge, two above; three just inside lip. Dull reddish-buff clay. Bluish-black glaze of high quality over entire bowl except center of underside. Complete except for chips; mended from a number of fragments.