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Martini Pitcher
circa 1955
A. R. Cole Pottery

earthenware glaze

Not currently on view

Gift of the Mint Museum Auxiliary and Daisy Wade Bridges from the Collection of Walter and Dorothy Auman

Arthur Ray Cole was from a family of talented North Carolina potters. After working in his father’s pottery for ten years, he opened his own shop in 1926 in Steeds, North Carolina, relocating it to Sanford in 1941 to be close to the main highway to Florida. This martini pitcher is not a traditional North Carolina form, but one that would have appealed to the tourist trade.

Accession Number: H1983.190.811

Measurements:

height: 10.25 inches
width: 5.75 inches

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