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Creamware pitcher with polychrome printed decoration, baluster body, large spout, and "C" handle. Classical figures and masonic motifs.
pitchers (vessels)
creamware
transfer printing
Vessel, Drink Serving
Pitcher
Creamware
Transfer Printed
Pitcher
"United for the benefit of ManKind" (Printed)
"A MASON FORMD OUT OF THE MATERIALS OF HIS LODGE"
"To heavens high Architect all praise/ All gratitude be given/ Who deign'd the human soul to raise/ By secrets sprung from heaven."
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
10.125 x 9.5 x 6.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1644
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