Sparrow pitcher
date: label: date made
content: 1885
notes: label: Description
content: Like many other pottery manufacturers in Ohio, Knowles, Taylor & Knowles began making Rockingham and yellow ware pottery. It wasn’t until nearly eight years later that they began producing ironstone tea sets, dinner services, toilet ware, cooking ware, accessory pieces, and pitchers with Britannia lids. This ironstone pitcher is decorated with a transfer printed sparrow and leaf design in a blue and white color scheme.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, East Liverpool
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Clare Shenehon Boyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0614.404
label: accession number
content: 1980.0614
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0614.404
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, blue (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 7 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 19.685 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 3/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 27.94 cm x 21.2725 cm x 19.3675 cm