Pitcher
- Object Name:
- Pitcher
- Object ID:
- 1936.003.03.01
- Creator:
- Spode, Josiah; Copeland and Garrett
- Place of Origin:
- Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1840-1850
- Description:
- Pitcher. Black transfer printed pearlware. Eight-sided pitcher with globular body, set on octagonal, outward-curving foot, 3 inches in diameter. Each of the eight sides is slightly concave. A continuous series of molded circle segments surrounds body at point where it begins to narrow to form neck. Rim flares slightly outward and has scalloped outline. Broad, curved lip arching above level of rim. Rococo handle formed of reversed, C-scrolls. Bat-printed underglaze designs in black, obverse and reverse, with pastoral scenes including female figures, wall with urn, tree and Chinese temple in background. Border on both sides of rim composed of a regularly curving black band with pendent flowers and scrollwork. Stylized shell on foot, obverse and reverse, accompanied by scrollwork. Impressed mark on bottom: "NS", which is a ware mark sometimes used on Spode's and Copeland and Garrett's "New Stone" body. Part of a set.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-5.5 W-5.75 D-4.125 inches
- Provenance:
- No provenance provided with this bequest.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Alice E. Peabody
- People:
- Peabody, Alice E. (1859-1936)
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