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EAPG - Pale Cranberry Crimped Pitcher

This is a pretty little Victorian water pitcher that was blown, rather than pressed, and has a very pale cranberry hue to it, with cute little enameled flowers hand-painted on it. Most likely it's from around the year 1900, give or take a decade or two. It has a ground pontil to it (a pontil is where the blown glass was broken off from the rest of the liquified glass, sometimes it's left rough, sometimes it's ground down to a smooth finish), and in this case, it's been ground smooth. The reeded handle was then applied to the pitcher while the glass was still a bit pliable. I picked this piece up at the estate sale that's been going on for the last couple of weeks with the estate of Dorothy Brown, who, for many years, had an antique store called Calico Mall, that was a staple of Hattiesburg for a few decades. I've picked up several pieces there the two times that I've gone.