This rare pitcher is part of a series of functional forms designed and handcrafted by Weston Neil Andersen in the early years when he was developing ideas for a line of slip-cast functional ware used to launch Andersen Design, or Ceramics by Anderson, as it was originally called.

It is the only known example of this design but there could have been others cast. In those days the technology to create instant records did not exist. Work was often sold without a record of its existence being made.

The pitcher was most likely created when Weston was the Dean of the Art School at Akron Art Institute, in the late forties and early fifties.

At the Akron Art Institute, Weston had access to a state-of-the-art ceramic studio.

The lip of the spout is gently chipped.

Both the glaze and the form are original designs by Weston Neil Andersen.

The diagonal distance from the bottom to the edge of the spout is ten inches.

The pitcher is nine inches tall measured from the far edge of the handle to the tip of the spout

The pitcher is six inches in diameter at its widest