Pearlware, semi-globular form, with strap handle, painted with iron red, green, blue, yellow and black overglaze enamel decoration of four Chinese figures in a landscape, with purple lustre line of trim at rim.
milk jugs
pearlware
Chinoiserie
Pearlware
Chinoiserie
PITCHER, MILK
Fabric label on bottom underside: ""N.F. LITTLE/305 Warren St./BROOKLINE"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 x 5.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.184
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