Pitcher

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pitcher
Datec. 1849–1858
Possible placeBennington, Vermont, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (Rockingham ware)
Dimensions9 5/8 × 7 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (24.4 × 18.4 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.57.48
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Ceramics Study Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

This pitcher and the previous example (B.72.98) exemplify the almost limitless shapes, ornaments, and allusions to high style given to the basic, molded, mass-produced Rockingham-glazed product. B.72.98, with its molded acantcshus leaves and grape ornaments, reflects the shift away from classicism to naturalism at mid-century, echoed by the branch-form handle. The swirl ribbed design seen on the present example represents the Rococo revival, referencing eighteenth-century Continental silver forms.

Related examples: Barret 1958, p. 26, pl. 25g.

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.


Provenance[George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; [Whimsy Antiques, Arlington, Vermont]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Indiscernible mark [part of a circle approximately 2 1/2 inches in diameter]

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