Pitcher with hinged lid; weight 2,343 g; lid decorated with a polished sphere and a lamb holding a cup; height 39 cm x 21 cm; body inscribed (translation by D. Menzel 12/19/73) “Donated to/ the New Church/ at Ober Arter/ by Mr. Johann Wilhelm Christian Weismann; At the time Minister there/ and his wife/ Maria Johanna born - Seegerin / Year 1771”
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Germany
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Metal and Pewter (tin alloy)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pitchers (vessels)
Production date:
1771
Accession date:
1909 and 1914
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Loans:
S1979-1980 #37: University of California, Berkeley (January 21, 1980–May 29, 1980)