Cow Pitcher with Lid
Daniel Greatbatch (United States Pottery Company (American, 1847–58); Bennington, Vermont)
c. 1855
- Medium
- Earthenware with glaze
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 15.2 × 19.1 × 8.9 cm (6 × 7 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Bennington
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Harry A. Root in memory of Curtis C. Palmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Ceramic animal figurines have been popular in the United States since the 18th century, and many were modeled after English prototypes, especially those made at Staffordshire potteries. The whimsical cow creamer—a popular mid-19th-century form—is decorated in Rockingham glaze, an inexpensive, ubiquitous brown glaze that was popularized by American potteries, especially in Bennington, Vermont.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
