Wheel-thrown stoneware pitcher, gray ovoid body with extended neck and pulled spout. Applied handle. Clear salt glaze except for bottom and interior. Brushed cobalt decoration is foliate designs at both sides of spout, graceful leaf and flower design at front side with two pendant branches; both handle terminals highlighted with additional leafage extending from lower terminal. Decorative incised line at top of shoulder.
Badly chipped: 2 at spout, 1 at side of rim, minor ones at base along with one very large chip and one medium size. Rusty discoloration at one side with adjacent imperfections in finish likely from firing. Stained and soiled on bottom and interior.
Object ID
G.96.37.103
Credit
Gift of Henry J. Kauffman, Heritage Center Collection
