Pitcher with brown figurative images

The pitcher is adorned with dark brown figurative images with a pastoral scene covering almost the entire surface. The foreground features four young women, goats, and a landscape with mills and castles. The spout and handle are decorated with floral motifs, and the spout is also decorated on the inside. A small part is chipped on the shallow foot.

At the Bukovac House, there are several examples of the so-called transferware pottery. Specifically, the artist would engrave a certain motif on a copper plate, which would then be transferred onto the object in the desired colour using wax paper, hence the term ‘transferware.’ Afterward, the object would be placed in a kiln; the engraving would remain beneath the glaze, making the image resistant to washing and scratching. This process was developed in England in the mid-18^th century and gained popularity in the 19^th century due to its faster and cheaper production compared to hand-painted pottery.

The pitcher exhibits somewhat awkwardly integrated parts of the design, where scenes overlap, indicating a less skilful execution of transferware pottery. Since it lacks any identifying marks, the pitcher is dated based on the depiction of park scenery, popular in England in the second half of the 19^th century.

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