- Unknown Maker
- Unnamed (Curled Cartouche), 1880
- Earthenware
- 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
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Not For Sale
Pitcher, 6.5 inches tall. Brown transfer. Unknown maker. This elaborate pattern consists of two horizontal bands around the body of the pitcher. The narrower upper band is divided into squares and features rosettes. The wider lower band is decorated with a single laurel branch and has evenly-spaced grommet openings. The handle-right side of the pitcher features a large ribbon bow holding two trailing branches of periwinkle-type flowers. The tails of the ribbon bow hang down, piercing the top of a scroll cartouche with a curled bottom edge, and threading through the grommets of the lower band and attaching at the rosettes in the upper band. The scroll cartouche features a vignette of a small country town on an island lake with a small boat in the foreground and mountains in the background. On the handle left side of the pitcher, an irregular twelve-sided cartouche is laid over the band and the ribbon tails are pinned at the top of either side on the rosettes. The cartouche features a vignette of a lakeside home, framed on top and bottom by rosettes. The border around the rim consists of a simple repeated geometric pattern and the handle features another continuous laurel branch.
- Subject Matter: Aesthetic (Cartouche)
- Collections: Aesthetic Transferware, Unknown Maker