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French ewer, 1795, hard-paste porcelain, height: 25.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) In American English, a pitcher is a container with a spout used for storing and pouring liquids.
It is widely believed to have been buried in 1795 by then-Governor Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. It is the oldest known time capsule in the United States. [1] The time capsule is a metal container measuring 5.5 by 7.5 by 1.5 inches (140 mm × 191 mm × 38 mm), and weighing about 10 pounds (4.5 kg).
A beak-spouted ewer (German: Schnabelkanne) is a ewer, jug, pitcher or flagon with a spout formed in the shape of a beak. Beak-spouted ewers were initially made and used by the Etrurians. The Celts imported some of these vessels and started to copy them. They developed variants according to their liking.
There are competing theories for the origin of the name "Toby Jug". [4] Although it has been suggested that the pot is named after Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the most widely accepted theory is that the original was a Yorkshireman, Henry Elwes, 'famous for drinking 2,000 gallons of strong stingo beer from his silver ...
Pitcher, a container, usually with a spout for pouring its contents; Punch bowl, a bowl that punch is put in, generally used in parties; Vase, an open container often used to hold flowers; Bong, a smoking device often made from glass; Peking glass, a Chinese form of overlay glass, often in the form of snuff boxes or vases; Penny lick
Pitcher (container) S. Stirrup jar This page was last edited on 4 October 2017, at 04:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...