Pitcher
Pitcher
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- Description
- 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. By the end of the nineteenth-century, the company also added the production of hotel china, specialties for hospitals and asylums, and electrical porcelain. This blank water pitcher would have been decorated with gilding, transfer printed images, or a label in the circular space. It was made exclusively for hotels.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Pitcher
- date made
- 1890-c. 1910
- place made
- United States: Ohio, East Liverpool
- Physical Description
- white (overall color)
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 19.05 cm x 13.335 cm x 19.685 cm
- overall: 7 5/8 in x 7 9/16 in x 5 1/4 in; 19.3675 cm x 19.20875 cm x 13.335 cm
- ID Number
- 1981.0134.34
- accession number
- 1981.0134
- catalog number
- 1981.0134.34
- Credit Line
- Jack F. Gates Clarke
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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