CultureAmerican
Titles
- Pitcher
Datec. 1855–1875
Made inUnited States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (Rockingham ware)
Dimensions12 1/4 × 7 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (31.1 × 19.1 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.63.17
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Ceramics Study Room
On view
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Department
Bayou BendObject Type
Corn, a native plant of the New World, conveyed specifically American connotations when used as a decorative motif. Molded porcelain pitchers, such as the present example, were first produced by factories in Greenpoint, New York, in about 1850. This pitcher exemplifies the widespread adaptation of porcelain forms to the mass market of Rockingham-glazed earthenware.
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 Abraham and Gilbert May Antiques, Granville, Massachusetts]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1963; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Illegible oval-shaped impression
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