Bar Pitcher, press-molded porcelain, made by Greenwood Pottery Company, ca. 1900, 9.25 in H. On one side King Gambrinus, the patron saint of beer, offers a glass of same to Uncle Sam. On the opposite side, a Chinese card shark is being exposed and attacked by one of the men he is said to have cheated. The imagery is based on a Brett Hart poem popular in the 1870s. Pitchers such as this were used on bars for dispensing beer or water (to mix with whisky). The design was copied from a popular pitcher designed by Karl Müller for Union Porcelain Works, Brooklyn, New York. Collection of the New Jersey State Museum, CH1968.210