Pitcher

Object Name:

Pitcher

Object ID:

1914.014.268

Creator:

Southern Porcelain Co

Date:

circa 1861

Description:

Pitcher. Whiteware, earthenware. Heavy white pitcher, lumpy in shape, bulging sides, footed base, high knotty handle rising above rim, high scuttle-shaped spout. Relief decoration of stalks of corn bearing ears covers entire surface. Glossy lead glaze inside and out. Glaze crackled. Paper label on exterior with printed number "268". No maker's mark seen.

Material:

Ceramic

Dimensions:

H-10.1 W-9.6 D-6.2 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

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)