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Important Miniature Presentation Pitcher, Inscribed and Made By Walter Donaghho, Parkersburg, WV |
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Item #WVDP01 |
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Measuring only 3 1/8" tall, this very small sized stoneware pitcher is incised across its side, Clara Hirdman / 1877, and on the bottom, Complim / ents / W.D. It is decorated on both sides of the collar with stylized flowers typical of those seen on western Pennsylvania & West Virginia stoneware, particularly on that made by A.P. Donaghho in both Fredericktown, PA and Parkersburg, WV. The handle is decorated with a series of small dots, and an incised set of bands running around the base of the collar is filled in with cobalt. Based on the form, decoration and following documentation, this piece was most definitely made by Walter Donaghho, eldest son of Alexander P. Donaghho. Walter Donaghho was born circa 1860 and is listed in the 1870 Parkersburg, WV census as an eleven-year-old boy living with his father. The same census lists "Clara Herdman," age nine, living a very short distance from the Donaghho family. Clara, whose father, Thomas, was a farm hand, would have been about sixteen years old in 1877, about the same age as Walter, seventeen. By 1880, the Herdmans had apparently left Parkersburg, and Walter Donaghho, twenty, was listed as a "Professor of Penmanship." This small pitcher was most probably given as a token of favor from seventeen-year-old Walter to his lady friend. It is an important, museum quality example of West Virginia/western PA regional stoneware with exceptional documentation, made at one of the most prolific American stoneware potteries. |
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Only 3 1/8" tall. |
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Original, mint condition. A tiny, tiny flake on the back of the rim is salt-glazed over. |
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