Pitcher
Description
Small pitcher, broken and mended, with trefoil mouth. Red with black decoration. Small concentric circles parallel with the base of the handle. Two sets of broad bands within narrow bands between them at the full point of the body. Three large concentric circle designs below the stripes. Bottom reads "Cyprus 1874"
Dimensions
14.5 x 6.7 cm (5 11/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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