Pitcher 1853-56 Charles Cartlidge and Company The mid-nineteenth century porcelain manufactory of Charles Cartlidge and Company in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, produced a variety of slip-cast wares for the middle class market. The firm offered a wide array of forms which included tablewares and pitchers, along with mundane, everyday objects (inkstands, paper weights, spittoons, etc.) to highly specialized items. Among the companys favorite designs are the relief-molded pitchers of either corn and cornstalks or oak leaves and acorns. The most significant Cartlidge pitchers are those with shields and inscribed with names, often made for tradesmen or saloon keepers. This example is a presentation pitcher for Edmund Jones, lessee and proprietor of the Claremont, a resort hotel built in the early 1880s, on the Bloomingdale Road (what is now Riverside Drive and 124th street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan). The historic resort hotel was depicted in "The Claremont," an undated