Covered pitcher
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1861
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Wedgwood, English, established 1759
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Body of squat pear shape, on circular molded base. Molded band between body and flare neck. Applied scrolled handle. Body with "orange skin" texture overall, glazed in mauve. Raised decoration in white of floral rosettes and tendril vines; decoration highlighted with gilding. Jug fitted with hinged metal cover in the form of a domed shell. Thumbpiece above scroll handle fitted with ceramic button.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Tunstall, England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carol Littman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1979-17-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Covered pitcher
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Molded, glazed and gilt stoneware, white metal (mount)
label: Dimensions
content: 19.7 x 16.8 x 16.8 cm (7 3/4 x 6 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)