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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Covered pitcher
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Covered pitcher

Manufacturer Boardman & Co.
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1825
MediumPewter
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
InscribedLion mark stamped on bottom.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2365.17
On View
On view
DescriptionPlain covered pitcher with bulbous body and applied spout and handle. Flat finial on cover and raised foot.

Exhibition HistoryMyers House/Old Kitchen Published ReferencesLedlie Irwin Laughlin, PEWTER IN AMERICA, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940), p. 435; Ralph M. and Terry H. Kovel, A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SILVER, PEWTER AND SILVERPLATE, (Crown Publishers, New York, 1961), p. 321.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Roswell Gleason
ca. 1820
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Ball, Black & Co.
1856
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Freeman Porter
ca. 1835
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1900
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Ashbil Griswold
ca. 1810
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Benjamin Wade Owen Sr.
1960s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera- 2007.
Benjamin Wade Owen Sr.
ca. 1930-1940
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
James Young
1773-1774
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Robert Hennell I
1780-81
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Geminiano Cozzi
ca. 1800
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Johann Dietrich Rehwald
ca. 1740