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Posted by Andrew J Pye on July 17, 2008, 1:29 pm, in reply to "Salesman's Sample Pitcher Form"
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Hi Karen
I may get this technically wrong from a potters viewpoint! Pitchers are made in moulds, with liquid clay being poured in to form the shape. Looking at larger pitchers you can see a "join" running bang down the front of the pitcher. I am not sure if pitchers were made in two halves and then "joined" or if this is where the two halves of the mould came together allowing some clay to protrude and form the "join" on the pitcher.
Anyway however it was done you can fill one half of the mould and create half a pitcher. Ideal as a traveller's sample, as they take half the space and you can stack them together. I have never actually seen one, but Jonathan and Christopher Weatherby of J W Weatherby & Sons Ltd of Hanley told me some years ago that their Mother had a wall at her home covered with these half pitchers made over the years by the family pottery. The only pitchers that will hang flat on the wall.
So I guess that is what you have there. Presumably the special handle was attached to reduce risk of breakage. I would say a pretty rare item, almost as rare as hen's teeth. Has anybody else got one or seen one?
Regards
Andrew
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