PITCHERS

LES CARAFES A EAU

Water is poured to turn un petit Pastis into a milky aperitif in the summer in the south of France; we savor a tall glass of water after a hard workout; in India a tall cold metal tumbler of water covered with a small round net is offered the minute you enter a home or office. 
And all this water is poured from various containers, usually pitchers in all shapes sizes and materials; I love the shapes of water pitchers, their elegant beaks, there round bellies or slender lines, their graceful arms; here are a few to be admired.

This one I wish I owned. 

brass and parchment by Aldo Tura 1940's. wow!

The classics

Gorham

Meriden 1880, mixed metal

Tiffany. Japonesque hammered silver

the moderns

Jewel Stern; mid-century Bakelite, plastic and silver

Bernard Rice 1920's silver Skyscraper Pitcher

Maciel, Mexico; mid century silver

Mueller Munk; Normandie Art Deco

French mid-century 

Picasso, Vallauris; 50's 

Alexandre Noll, sycamore 50's

Mid-century, unknown potter

Mid Century, Vallauris Poterie

Robert et Jean Cloutier 50's

Jacques Blin 50's

Animal imagery

Los Castillo, Mexico; Toucan

Majolica

Hunting imagery

19th century English

A few of mine 

classic and generous and beautifully hammered

Mid Century Penguins

(notice the holes on the inside to prevent ice from falling into the glass)

Diner style; sleek aluminum

50's  amber pressed glass

Mid century American

Russell Wright

images modernism gallery, 1st dibs, PBA auctions, jadhny

au revoir.