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Pearlware pitcher with blue transfer-printed "Views of the Erie Canal" pattern. Naturalistic flowers are printed on the interior and exterior of the rim, the handle and base. The flowers frame two different scenes of the bridge, "View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Rochester" and "View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls."
pitchers (vessels)
earthenware
transfer printing
pearlware
historic landscapes
Pitcher, Wash
Pitcher, Wash
'VIEWS OF THE / ERIE-CANAL" [in crescent-shaped cartouche] (printed)
Views of Erie Canal
Enoch Wood & Sons (Maker)
8 1/4 x 8 x 6 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Bridge
1950.242
1825 (Circa)
Old Erie Canal (New York state) [canal]
Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom)
Title Wash Basin Accession Number 1950.241
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