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Absinthe Pichets II - Grès
Stoneware pitchers water pitchers for use with the absinthe ritual. Note the unusually small spout of all these pitchers,
which facilitated the thin controlled stream of water necessary for the
proper preparation of an absinthe.
A similar zoomorphic pitcher, in brown
glazed earthenware.
A "Grès d'Alsace" water pitcher in the shape of
a bulldog, made for Absinthe Delizy et Doistau.
The famous "Messieurs c'est l'heure" Swiss
anti-prohibition pitcher. It shows the clock at
ten to midnight (on 7th October 1910, the
date absinthe was banned in Switzerland).

There are many modern reproductions of
these jugs.
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A well detailed Grès d'Alsace
water pitcher in the shape of a
bulldog.
A rare unusually fine and animated
"Grès d'Alsace"
absinthe water pitcher in
the shape of a
n apron-wearing bulldog.

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A circa 1900 catalogue from the pottery maker
Henri Picard, showing, at bottom left, this type of
zoomorphic pitcher -  "Brocs a absinthe".

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