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"Prattware" pitcher, medium-sized, bulbous form, with continuous relief decoration of scroling grapevine, acanthus leaves, "Birth of Venus," putto riding on eagle, and a ship, all in "Prattware" colors. Scalloped rim and large downturned spout.
pitchers (vessels)
creamware
lead glaze
glazing (coating)
molding (forming)
Relief Molded
Vine
Acanthus
Putti
Prattware
Creamware
Pitcher
1) Impressed on bottom underside: ""FERRYBRIDGE"". 2) Paper label on bottom underside: "" `Ferrybridge'/Yorkshire-/Ralph Wedg-/ wood, 1796 on"" (handwritten) and ""LITTLE"". 3) Typed note/label found inside (now in accession file): ""JUG--early 19th Century Type of decoration usually attrib-/uted to Pratt Mark: FERRYBRIDGE (impressed) Ralph Wedgwood, Yorkshire. Pieces/sometimes marked ""Wedgwood & Co."" ""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Ferrybridge Pottery (Manufacturer)
England
5 1/2 x 7 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.182
Knottingley (Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
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