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Buff colored clay body. Lower half and lining tan; upper half deep Rockingham-type brown. Elongated bulbous body with vertical ribbing at base and at cylindrical neck flanking central portion of body decorated with applied oval medallions--one with portrait of Columbus, one with a three-masted ship. Slip-trail insciption "Christopher/Columbus/sighted America/October 12. 1492."
pitchers (vessels)
glazing (coating)
stoneware (pottery)
tin (metal)
commemoratives
portraits
Rockingham ware (American ceramics style)
ships
Stoneware
Tin Glazed
Medallion
Ship
Portrait
Rockingham
Commemorative
PITCHER
See Description. Also, see card for impressed marks.
Columbus, Christopher
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Doulton & Co. (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
8 x 6.125 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.604
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