Large creamware picher of barrel shape and foliate strap handle; body decorated with a pale yellow glaze and painted roulette-like banding to the top and bottom in shade of dark brown and rust. Sometimes categorized as English Yelloware.
pitchers (vessels)
creamware
glazing (coating)
lead glaze
throwing (pottery technique)
yellowware
Creamware
Yelloware
Thrown
Lead Glazed
PITCHER
Handwritten fabric label on bottom underside: ""B.K.Little/Spring Street"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8 1/2 x 10 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.425
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