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1825-1850
GUSN-40274
White body covered in pink lustre with eight-sided white background panels with allegory of charity transfer printed and painted: charity extends hand to boy, left, while holding baby with boy clinging to her skirts; scene flanked by trees; white spout with pink lustre scalloped terminal; white handle with feathering on spine in relief and pink lustre highlights.
pitchers (vessels)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
luster (textile)
overglazing
transfer printing
tin (metal)
allegory (artistic device)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
infants
trees
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Tin Glazed
Luster
Overglazed
Allegory
Boy
Baby
Tree
PITCHER
On bottom: Handwritten paper labels: ""Earthenware/ 1764/ Billingsley 1814/ Soft Paste 1814 to 17/ Dillyn/ Swansea/ Wales/ Porcelain 1814 to 23""
Charity
Unknown
5 1/4 (H) (inches)
Bequest of Mrs. Eva R. Greeley
1939.378
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