Pitcher
Maker
Unknown American
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
Not on view
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Department
Bayou BendObject Type
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.
Published References Riefstahl, R. M. "Early American Glass Produced by the Foreign-Born Wistar and Steigel, But a True Expression of the Colonial Spirit." International Studio (April 1923), illustrated on p. 9, as Wistarburg and noted as collection of Jacob Paxson Temple.
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