This is a nineteenth century molded red earthenware pitcher that I recently picked up for an inexpensive price, whereas the reason I purchased it was because of the lengthy history of family ownersrhip that it retained, as well as the fact that I think it may have been made at the Gast Pottery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1860-1880. Furthermore, this object seems to have been inspired by similar shaped Rockingham glazed pitchers made in places like Bennington, Vermont in the 1800s.
Nonetheless, I acquired this pitcher from a woman living in southeastern Pennsylvania, and she told me that it was her grandmother's - she said she remembered it from her childhood. She also said that her grandmother owned the pitcher for as long as she could remember; she told me that her grandmother then gave it to her mother some years ago, and more recently, it was given to the woman who I purchased it from.
Additionally, she told me that she did not know if it retained any further history with her family prior to her grandmother, although she did note that her grandfather sold lumber in the mid-twentieth century, and he traveled throughout the area, often bringing home gifts for his wife, such as pottery and glass.
For more information about the Gast Pottery in Lancaster, see a report written in 2007 by Karen Hagadorn, titled, The Legacy of Henry Gast and an Examination of the Impact of Industrialization on Nineteenth Century Pottery in Lancaster: https://digital.fandm.edu/object/scholars-square2236.
Red Earthenware Pitcher that Retains History of Family Ownership
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