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Cream Pitcher

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1750-1760

GUSN

GUSN-10729

Description

Small Whieldon-type cream pitcher of baluster form with serrated rim and scroll handle with overall brown and green mottled lead glazes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

creamers
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
throwing (pottery technique)
Thrown
Luted
Wheildon
Earthenware
Pitcher, Cream

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

United Kingdom; England

Dimensions

3 3/4 x 3 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.586

Places

England (United Kingdom) [country]

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