Large pear-shaped pitcher with relief portrait of George Washington in oval frame on both sides. Somewhat flattened loop handle with thumb hold. Brown and yellow Rockingham glaze, showing some opalescence.

Technical notes: Lip chipped; glaze badly pitted around base and on front.

Book excerpt: Warren, David B., 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.