Daniel Greatbach is generally credited with introducing the so-called Hound pitcher to America, first at the American Pottery Company in Jersey City, New Jersey, and later at Bennington.  This English form is distinguished by a handle in the shape of a greyhound whose rear paws rest on the body and whose forepaws and nose are at the upper lip. The sloping ovoid body is typically ornamented in relief with a stag hunt and the neck with grapevines. The form's enormous popularity is reflected in its widespread production from New England to Maryland and west to Ohio.

Related examples: Barret 1958, pp. 30–33, illustrates similar pitchers made at Bennington.  For New York and New Jersey examples, see Levin 1988, p. 34, figs. 22, 23, and New Jersey Pottery 1972, nos. 30, 31, 119; for a Baltimore example without the shoulder by Bennett, see Perry 1989, p. 45, no. 39.  See also Ketchum 1971, no. 110.

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.