Pitcher
Artist
Walter B. Stephen
(American, 1875-1961)
Manufacturer
Pisgah Forest Pottery
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1940
MediumCeramic
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
InscribedRaised on bottom, badly pressed and filled glaze: Pisgah Forest
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number79.4
Not on view
DescriptionBaluster-shaped pitcher with an applied handle. The whole covered with a mulberry flambe glaze which shades lighter at the tio and on the handle. The glaze is in imitation of a Chinese glaze of the Sung period.Exhibition History"Southern Pottery from the Collection of The Chrysler Museum", Norfolk, VA, March 3/4 - May 29, 1994. Published References_Kovels' Collector's Guide to American Art Pottery_. New York: Crown Publishers, 1974, p.177.
