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The creamer is of oblong baluster form with a flared rectangular-cut cornered base and large scalloped spout and a "D" shaped handle. It is printed in blue with a vintage (grape) pattern at the base, front and back, spout and handle. Also a scroll-edge reserve with a view of a fortress on a hill with ships in the foreground on two sides.
creamers
earthenware
impressing
molding (forming)
transfer printing
fortresses
scenes (depictions)
ships
Earthenware
Molded
Transfer Printed
Impressed
Fortress
Ship
Scenic
PITCHER, CREAM
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
5.75 x 6 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1026
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