Featured is a large #2 Spongeware mixing bowl, off-white coloured, primitive old farmhouse kitchen stoneware mixing bowl. Spongeware and Spatterware has been made in the United States for nearly 300 years and is still being produced today. Originally made in the United Kingdom, created as an inexpensive product often exported to the United States, the durable and attractive pottery quickly became very popular in the US. Tough, chip-resistant Stoneware was and still is made for utilitarian use. Those lovely old blue and white spatterware or spongeware pitchers and bowls you see in antique shops can easily be over 100 years old—their resiliency stood up to a long life in the kitchens of yesteryear. This has tight spider cracks at the bottom edging the side, looks as though it would be fine for dry use, or display. Condition is good, wear is consistent with normal use and age, no other marring noted. Measures 12.75" diameter, 6.5" deep