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Beautifully Decorated 1 Gallon Pitcher w/ Tin Make-Do Handle And Extremely Rare Potter's Mark: G & A BLACK |
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Item #WPBP01 |
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This stoneware pitcher is profusely decorated around its entire front with large, bright cobalt blue flowers and its collar and spout are decorated with bright blue dashes. Its original handle has broken off and been replaced with an expertly crafted, tin make-do handle, probably by a local 19th century tinsmith. Deeply impressed on the collar is the extremely rare potter's mark, G. & A. BLACK, above a one gallon capacity mark. George and Albert Black operated their stoneware pottery in Somerfield, PA from 1852 to 1872. Pieces signed with their maker's mark are considered very rare and are some of the most highly sought after of all Western Pennsylvania stoneware. George and Albert Black's father, James Black, is presumably the same James Black who worked for B.C. Milburn in Alexandria, Virginia, and who operated his own pottery there for only one year, 1836. This is an extremely fine example of early Western PA. stoneware!! |
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9 ¾" tall. |
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A bunch of thin, tight lines in the bottom extending up the side slightly. A few tiny chips on the bottom. Rings perfectly when struck. |
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