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Large Salamander Hound Handle Pitcher,

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Large Salamander Hound Handle 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 and with a scalloped design on the shoulder. The back of the hound's paws have three incisions indicating digits, and the base is embossed B1, indicating the largest size on the Salamander Works' 1837 price list, which called this design the "Hound Pattern." (See Goldberg 2003: 36-39, figs. 19, 20 for text and similar examples.)

Few tight short hairlines to rim.

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