Very Fine and Rare Tucker Factories "Landscaped" Porcelain Pitcher, Circa 1826-38

Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York, October 14, 2006, lot 536.

In an attempt to bring the manufacture of hard-paste porcelain to the United States, in 1826 William Ellis Tucker organized a business to make porcelain in Philadelphia. In its various incarnations, Tucker operated a porcelain business until 1838, which makes it the first commercially successful manufactory of porcelain in America. The Tucker factories emulated the production of Parisian and other French porcelain manufactories. and although rarely is it difficult to distinguish a piece of Tucker porcelain from its French prototypes, the goal was nevertheless to be as close as possible to "Old Paris" porcelain.

A Tucker pitcher painted with very similar riverside landscapes is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1970.112.