PITCHER, CREAM
https://collections.galtmuseum.com/link/artifact9478
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1896
- Date Range To
- 1920
- Materials
- POTTERY
- Catalogue Number
- P19990041002
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1896
- Date Range To
- 1920
- Materials
- POTTERY
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 5.9
- Diameter
- 5.0
- Description
- SMALL, GREEN AND WHITE PITCHER. THERE IS A SMALL POURING SPOUT ON LIP. A WIDE GREEN LINE ABOVE A THIN GREEN LINE, GO AROUND RIM OF PITCHER. ANOTHER THIN GREEN LINE GOES AROUND THE MIDDLE. BOTTOM OF PITCHER IS CONCAVE. STAMPED ON BOTTOM IN GREEN, IS "JOHN MADDOCK & SONS LTD MADE IN ENGLAND". ABOVE THIS IS A LION ABOVE A BANNER THAT READS "VITRIFIED".
- Subjects
- FOOD SERVICE T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- MANUFACTURER OF ARTIFACT WAS A SPECIALIST IN HOTEL WARE, SO ITEM POSSIBLY CAME FROM A HOTEL. MURIEL NUGENT WAS BORN MARCH 30, 1915 IN WINNIPEG. THERE, SHE MET AND MARRIED WILLIAM T. NUGENT AND IN 1946, WITH THEIR FAMILY, THEY CAME TO LETHBRIDGE. THEY MOVED IN ORDER THAT WILLIAM COULD TAKE UP A JOB WITH WESTERN CANADIAN HARDWARE IN LETHBRIDGE. PRIOR, HE HAD SERVED WITH THE NAVAL RESERVES IN WINNIPEG DURING WORLD WAR II. MURIEL PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 8, 2002 AND WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND IN 1989.
- Catalogue Number
- P19990041002
- Acquisition Date
- 1999-10
- Collection
- Museum
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