Description:

Great, old, and very rare ceramic item. I would call it a creamer/pitcher.

It is approximately 2-1/2" tall and about 2' in diameter at the base. Produced by the Ceramics Engineering Department at Iowa state College​ in 1930 to commemorate the VEISHEA celebration.
 

The story begins in 1922, back in the days when ISU wasn't really ISU, but was called the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The word, VEISHEA, cannot be found in any dictionary, but it has a definition that is complete, powerful, and impressive. VEISHEA means "Iowa State on Display." From its meager beginning in 1922 until the spectacular event it is today, VEISHEA has served the campus, the state, and the Midwest. This concept of VEISHEA grew out of several disunited Divisional, or Excursion Days. These individual college celebrations interrupted class work for everyone and were never particularly successful.

Professor Frank D. Paine, Department of General Engineering, named VEISHEA in 1922. Previous to 1922, May Fete was the only all-college spring celebration. Then, in 1922, the five colleges at Iowa State combined forces to present the university to the public as a whole. The name VEISHEA is composed of the first letters of the five colleges; V standing for Veterinary Medicine, E for Engineering, IS for Industrial Science, HE for Home Economics, and A for Agriculture. The representation of all schools in the name symbolizes the unity and combined effort shown during the many months of planning and preparation.

The events of that first VEISHEA included a parade, a sham battle, a Home Economics open house, a horse show, vaudeville and the VEISHEA queens. It might be hard to imagine each parade float drawn by horses instead of the streamlined convertibles of today's' parade. It isn't hard to imagine, on the other hand, that the vaudeville girls in "Scandals of 1922" were flappers of the Ziegfield influence. Slapstick mocking of the divisions and a play called "Honeybunch" led the list of events