Cream Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Cream Pitcher
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
50.4.90
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.5 cm; Rim W: 7.75 cm, D: 9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1815-1830
Primary Description: 
Cream Pitcher. Lead glass, clear purplish amethyst; pattern-molded and free-blown; small body with straight sides spreading to rounding short shoulder, wide neck flaring at rim with deep lip and tooled lines giving banded effect; rough pontil mark; pattern of expanded vertical ribbing; large handle arching slightly above rim and curving down to shoulder, very long "leaf" end with tip turned back.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1940
to
1950-07-31
Color: 
amethyst
Technique: 
mold-blowing
applied
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) illustrated, pl. 114; BIB# 22048
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 174 (fig. 151); BIB# 19272