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Pitcher

Object Name:
Pitcher
Object ID:
1914.014.265
Place of Origin:
England
Date:
circa 1830
Description:
Pitcher. Lustreware; copper lustre, with wide band (mustard-colored) around center. Beading on edges of band as well as around top of pitcher. Band covered with copper-lustre scrolls and leaves plus figures (in relief) of men, painted in bright colors. One man squatting, next man smoking and leaning against rock, then two men, perhaps drinking.
Material:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
H-6.8 W-7.5 D-5.6 inches
Provenance:
Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s.
Credit Line:
Gift of Martha E. Durgin
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