Item 8583
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Rare 1 Gallon Yellow Ware Pitcher made and stamped by "Ballard & Brothers, Burlington, VT." 
 
This is one of the pottery stamps of the brothers Alfred, Orrin, and Hiram Ballard who made stoneware in Burlington, Vermont from 1856-1867 (William Ketchum, Jr., American Stoneware, pp. 45-46). 
 
This beauty sports a very Graceful Spout Embossed with Grapevines and Clusters of Grape, a Shoulder with a Garland of Five-Petaled Flowers, a Body with a Stag Hunt on One Side and a Boar Hunt on the Other, and a Hound Handle.  Crisp mold lines.  Stands 9 1/4" to the top of the handle.    
 
This is the only one of these that I have ever seen.  I could find only one in the online archives. 
 
Excellent Condition.  A minor pinhead-size nibble on the tip of the spout, and two chips on the footer (1/2", 1"- closeups).  No rim chips, hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.   It has been in storage for a half-century.  
 
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