Earthworm & Cats Eyes Banded Mocha Pitcher c1835 AS IS
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6 3/4 Inches Tall Transitional Pearlware Pitcher with Green Rouletting, Continuous Looped Earthworm Slip Trailing, Cats Eyes Circles, Three Broad Slip Washes Grounds and Eight Dark Mocha Brown Bands from about 1835 (AS IS) Pitcher (for sale flanked by a seaweed yelloware chamber pot and seaweed tankard (tankard and chamber pot for visual comparison only and not for sale WELCOME ITEM DETAILS: Although this pitcher has lost 90% of its spout and nearly all of its handle except the terminals (see all photos), it is restorable if you wish to pursue that route. And professionally restored large pitchers like this one can still command $1,200 to $1,800 and more. Recent auction have brought up to $4,800 for less than perfect mocha pitchers with rouletting, cat's eyes and earthworms motifs on a single vessel. So if you would rather invest in reparable mocha than today's stock market or real estate property, then this may be just the item for you. This pitcher is a late transitional pearlware example with a nice combination of slip trailed motifs, rouletting and banding dating from the 1825 to 1845 period. And what makes this pitcher particularly stand out despite the damage is its nearly symmetrical baluster shape (just the spread foot break up the symmetry), the two rouletted bands highlighted in green and the use of a fine creamware
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