Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1961.038.027 |
Object Name |
Pitcher, Milk |
Title |
Silver Lustreware Cream Pitcher |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Date |
19th-century |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
England, United Kingdom? |
Description |
Silver lustreware cream or milk pitcher (19th-c). See RELATED for the tea pot and sugar bowl are part of the set. |
Provenance |
Brought to Canada from Ireland by an unknown family, and later given to the Henry Rixon family of Owen Sound, Grey County. Eleanor Rixon told museum staff it likely was used as early as 1830? Eleanor Rixon resided in Owen Sound, Grey County, but her parents and maternal grandparents previously resided in the Leith area. Her grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ainslie (who came from Scotland and Galt before settling at the Lakeshore Line). Her father was Henry Rixon, an Englishman who emigrated c.1860. He worked for a time at Leith and in the late 19th-century the Rixons moved to Owen Sound, where Mr. Rixon had a lumbering business. |
Collection |
Food Service Tools & Equipment |
Material |
Earthenware/Lustreware/Glaze |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Rixon, Eleanor |
Function |
Tableware item that simulates silverware, but is actually ceramic (earthenware with a lustre finish). Lustreware was often referred to as "Poor Man's Silver", and was made in England. |