Pitcher Honoring Frederick Douglass
Pitcher Honoring Frederick Douglass
- Description
- This hand-modeled and molded, unglazed red earthenware pitcher honors Frederick Douglass, "Slave Orator/ United States Marshall, Recorder of Deeds D.C./ Diplomat."
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pitcher
- Date made
- ca 1895
- designer
- Bruce, J. E.
- maker
- unknown
- Place Made
- United States: New York, Albany
- Physical Description
- ceramic, earthenware, coarse (overall material)
- Measurements
- 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
- ID Number
- 1981.0353.1
- accession number
- 1981.0353
- catalog number
- 1981.0353.01
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Cultures & Communities
- Domestic Furnishings
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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