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Rare Salamander Hound Handle Presentation Pitcher

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Rare Salamander Hound Handle Presentation Pitcher, American, ca 1837-50s, of Rockingham glazed stoneware with putty-colored interior, attributed to Salamander Works, New York City or Woodbridge, New Jersey. A hunt scene of hounds attacking a stag is on one side, and a boar being attacked by mastiffs is on the other, the neck decorated with a leafy hop vine and flowers. The name GEO. EICHELL is spelled out on the shoulder, which has a scalloped design. The back of the hound's paws have three incisions indicating digits, and the base is embossed B2, indicating the second largest size on the Salamander Works' 1837 price list, which called this design the "Hound Pattern." 10.125" to top of handle; 9.5" to top of spout. Genealogical research shows a George W. Eichell born in 1824 and living in Ward 10, New York City, in 1840, and in Bergen, New Jersey, in 1880. (See Goldberg 2003: 36-39, figs. 19, 20 for text and similar examples.)

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