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"Prattware"; baluster shape with strap handle, with relief-molded gadrooning surrounding two landscape scenes (three men drinking; two women in classical garb); in "Prattware" coloration.
milk jugs
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
molding (forming)
creamware
Relief Molded
Neoclassical
Landscape
Prattware
Creamware
Pitcher, Milk
1) Impressed on bottom underside: ""HERCULANEUM""/[indistinct number--perhaps ""12""]. 2) Handwritten paper found inside (in accession file now) reveals these facts: ""Felix Pratt - 1780-1859/Fenton. Father, Wm. Pratt/ 1753-99/both may have made colored ware. Herculaneum - /1793-1833 - Liverpool"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Herculaneum Pottery (Maker)
Liverpool, England
5 x 4 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.183
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