Item 5380
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Tiny Blue and White Bowl in the Cosmos Flower Pattern.
 
Dating to the early 20th century, this beauty features a Waffle Background Hosting 8 Cosmos Flowers within Beaded Arches. A ribbed collar and base complete the decoration. Very attractive coloring with the collar and base in darker blue.  Very strong mold lines too. This is the smallest size that measures 2 1/2" tall and 5" wide.
 
You can find a fine writeup on this item in Taylor and Lowrance's, Collector's Encyclopedia of Salt Glaze Stoneware, pp. 156-57. 
 
Good Condition.  A few pinhead-size nibbles and a 1/2" chip on the bottom edge of the overhanging rim.  Otherwise no top of the rim or base chips, hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.   
 
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