Pitcher Honoring Frederick Douglass
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1895
name: label: designer
content: Bruce, J. E.
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This hand-modeled and molded, unglazed red earthenware pitcher honors Frederick Douglass, "Slave Orator/ United States Marshall, Recorder of Deeds D.C./ Diplomat."
label: Description
content: Although the maker is unknown, we do know that the design for the pitcher was copyrighted by a J. E. Bruce of Albany, New York, in 1896, one year after Douglass's death.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Albany
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0353.1
label: accession number
content: 1981.0353
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0353.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, earthenware, coarse (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.1 cm x 25.9 cm x 17.3 cm; 10 1/4 in x 10 3/16 in x 6 13/16 in