Pitcher

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pitcher
Datec. 1830–1850
Probable placeNew Jersey, United States
MediumNonlead glass
Dimensions9 in. height (22.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.466
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

This pitcher, made of relatively thick glass, was obviously utilitarian. However, the classically inspired helmet shape lends an attractive element of style.

Related examples: A very similar pitcher, with a slightly different design to the stem, at the Detroit Institute of Arts (McKearin and McKearin 1941, pl. 16, no. 3).

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceJacob Paxson Temple (1880–1924), Tanguy, Pennsylvania; consigned to [American Art Galleries, New York, The Jacob Paxson Temple Collection: Two Hundred Years of Glasswork in America, November 17, 1923, lot 591]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1923; given to MFAH, 1969.

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