Small white jasperware pitcher heavily decorated with scenes in relief. Decoration show Dionysus with satyrs. On one side Dionysus sits on a donkey supports by two satyrs and his arm is raised, looped through a grape vine. The other side Dionysus walks supported in between two satyrs. The handle is shapes as a grape vine.
pitchers (vessels)
porcelain
Pitcher
"42" (Impressed into bottom)
"No 264" (In relief within a scrolling ribbon surrounded by flowers and curliques)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD165
Possibly Wedgwood (Manufacturer)
4 1/4 x 3 5/8 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3049
Probably England (United Kingdom) [country]
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