Earthenware pitcher with a squat, globular body, glazed blue with white five-petal flowers in relief all over body and band of white daisies around neck and on spine of handle. Brown band around base and rim.
pitchers (vessels)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
maiolica
Vessel, Drink Serving
Pitcher
Pitcher
[two fish in an oval] "1280" (impressed)
Hugo Lonitz
6 (H), 4 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mr. Boylston Beal
1934.2118
Haldensleben (Magdeburg district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
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