Description:
Light grey-bodied, bulbous stoneware jar stamp-impressed "T CRAFTS & CO / WHATELY / 2" in-filled with cobalt blue. Thomas Crafts was one of the most successful potters in Whately (a town just south of Deerfield). He started making glazed redware pottery in 1802, developing a successful teapot business; he switched to salt-glazed stoneware in 1833 and was active until 1848, turning over the business to his sons. The 2 gallon jar has a wide mouth with a slightly flared rim; two C-shaped lug handles; an incised line around the neck running throught the handles; and the lower half of the body tapering in to the footed base. The salt glaze is of medium thickness; the interior is covered with Albany slip. There are several small chips in top lip. there is a fracture 5 inches down from the top continuing for 13" horizontally.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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