Pitcher

Museum number:
7-394a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070394a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.374 and Acc.481
Description:
Pitcher with lid, pewter, cast, engraved; (a) pitcher: cylindrival shape tapering, smaller at top; crest attached to side engraved HST; spout with hinged lid; (b) circular lid with circular loop handle. Used for wine.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Switzerland
Verbatim coll. place:
Western Switzerland
Culture or time period:
Swiss
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Metal and Pewter (tin alloy)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pitchers (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1909 and 1914
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 7-394a,b, described as Pitcher with lid, pewter, cast, engraved; (a) pitcher: cylindrival shape tapering, smaller at top; crest attached to side engraved HST; spout with hinged lid; (b) circular lid with circular loop handle. Used for wine.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pitcher, accession number 7-394a,b, described as Pitcher with lid, pewter, cast, engraved; (a) pitcher: cylindrival shape tapering, smaller at top; crest attached to side engraved HST; spout with hinged lid; (b) circular lid with circular loop handle. Used for wine.

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