Description:
Thrown, red earthenware pitcher, with flat bottom, turned base edge, vase-form body, flaring spout, spout appears to be smaller than normal almost truncated or cut down, a large curving strap handle attaches to the side of the pitcher, covered in a lustrous chocolately brown lead glaze with streaks which appear yellow, inscribed in red paint on bottom of jug, “156”, Formerly part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. Gates notecard for this object reads, "Pitcher. Red clay: heavy dark green glaze outside. Brown/ 7-8 in./ inside. Curious large handle. Glaze very smooth with some brown/ Bought of Vandyke 1913 who believes he found it in/ N. Carolina. (?)" A similar pitcher is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a similar example sold at Willis Henry Auctions, Marshfield, MA, August 2015. See Justin Thomas, "The Continued Study with Hopes of Identifying the American Potter Responsible for a Group of 19th Century Red Earthenware Pitchers that Survive today." blog post, March 30, 2016. A very similar example to this pitcher is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 20.109.6. There are some similar shape characteristics to alkaline-glazed jugs made by David M. Donkel, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
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