Pitcher
1800-1815
19th Century
6 1/8 in. x 5 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:
1959.87
A silver lusterware pitcher with a white earthenware body showing through in places to make a decorative design. It has a round body. Silver lusterware is made by coating the earthenware body with a platinum oxide. Firing reduces the oxide to a thin layer of platinum.