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1830-1850
GUSN-11324
Of cylindrical form with a flared rolled foot and a large triangular spout with hinged cover. It has a circular, slightly domed cover and a tapering wide strap handle with thumb reset. The side is set with a rectangular strip of four panes of uncolored glass held in a tin frame. It is all painted red and decorated with gold and black striping and gold foliate devices at the spout cover and handle.
pitchers (vessels)
painting (coating)
stenciling
tin (metal)
Tin
Painted
Stenciled
PITCHER
Stenciled on the side is: ALE .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 x 12 x 6.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1671
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