The Tucker monochrome pattern book identifies this form as the Walker shape and indicates that it came in four sizes. That the shape has no known English or Continental prototype and is the only design named after a person associated with the firm suggests that the form may have been introduced by Andrew Craig Walker, one of the foremost modelers at the factory. Judging from the relatively few number of surviving examples, the production must have been smaller than that of the Vase shape (see B.71.53, B.80.1, B.22.7.1, .2, B.22.6.1, .2, B.22.5.1,
.2, B.22.4, and B.22.8), although the cost for the large size, one dollar, was the same. Typically, these Walker pitchers are decorated with gilt and enamel floral patterns that are similar to ornaments of other Tucker forms. The relative crudeness of design and dull color of the enamel of B.22.13 suggest that it may have been a white blank that was painted outside of the factory.

Related Examples: Winchester 1936, p. 165, fig. 3, and p. 166, fig. 5; Tucker 1957, nos. 145, 275–78, 360–68; Hammerslough 1958; Jayne 1957, p. 238; Frelinghuysen 1989, p. 92, no. 11.

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.