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Wooden bowl used at a Sussex farmhouse, probably for serving meals for farm labourers. Made from elm, cut from an end slice of an elm log.
This wooden bowl was used at a Sussex farmhouse, probably for serving meals for farm labourers. It is made from elm, cut from an end slice of an elm log, since the grain is vertical.

1 bowl; wood [elm]; fair condition: chipped in a few places

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'BOWL // Period // no date ? 19th century // Description // From unspecified Sussex Farm House. elm - 7" diameter 3 1/4" depth. // Unusual in that the bowl is made from a slice across the end grain of the log. Pinto thinks that the diameter, small as it is, was by no means unusual for an eating bowl.', MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – 'BOWL // Domestic - Serving food // See correspondence with Pinto re origin in Sussex. // [pencil sketch] // Elm // Depression is unusually shallow. Grain is vertical ie the bowl is made from a slice cut through an elm log. // Most probably used as platters for farm labourer's meals, but may have had some different original purpose? One of a larger collection.'

1800-01-01 - 1899-12-31

Nineteenth century