Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2011–June 2012
Washington Pitcher
about 1810–20
Probably made by Herculaneum Pottery
Height: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
Creamware, with transfer-printed and silver luster decoration
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: English, probably Staffordshire
Accession number: 2012.33
Location: C. Kevin and G. Barrie Landry Gallery (Home in the New Nation)
Description: One side with oval portrait of George Washington, on the other an adaptation of the great seal of the United States. beneath spout are the initials "TEF" framed in silver luster.
Provenance/Ownership History: Before 1990, acquired from Kenneth Snow (dealer; b. 1909 - d. 1990), Newburyport, MA, by S. Robert Teitelman (b. 1917 - d. 2008), Haverford, PA; August 22, 2010, posthumous Teitelman sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH, lot 763, to Timothy Phillips, Cambridge, MA; 2011, gift of Timothy Phillips to the MFA. (Accession date: February 29, 2012)
Gift of Timothy Phillips in memory of Thomas F. Phillips, Jr.