Blue Ridge Southern Potteries Water Pitcher Jug Watauga Shape Eunice Pattern

  

Lovely and hard to find Blue Ridge China water pitcher or jug from Southern Potteries Incorporated, made in Tennessee probably in the 1940s. This is in the " Watauga" shape and in the "Eunice" floral pattern.

Marked on bottom with the Blue Ridge script mark stating Blue Ridge China hand painted underglaze Southern Potteries, Inc. Measures about 4 3/4" tall and about 7" from spout tip to end of handle. And here's the best part. I see no chips, cracks, flakes, or discoloration.

There are a few glaze pops and I do see a spot where some pink paint was misapplied by the painter who decorated the pitcher before glazing (below handle, see photo). I would not hesitate to give this as a gift... Even to my fussy Aunt Clara, the one who still has antimacassars on all her furniture.