Pitcher
1810-1830
19th Century
6 1/2 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.86
A copper lusterware pitcher. It has a round body with a broad buff band at the top and luster decorations. Lusterware is made by coating earthenware with a thin covering of copper oxide. Firing reduces the oxide leaving a thin layer of copper over the earthenware.