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Cow Milk Pitcher

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1800-1825

GUSN

GUSN-10739

Description

Pearlware milk pitcher in the form of a cow figure with calf; with polycrome sponged enamel deocration in blue, yellow and orange-brown; mounted on a base.

Details

Descriptive Terms

milk jugs
enamel paint
overglazing
pearlware
polychrome
sponging
Pearlware
Polychrome
Overglazed
Sponge-painted
Enamel
PITCHER, MILK

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3.75 x 6 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.596

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