Description:
Stoneware jug stamp-impressed "LYMAN & CLARK / GARDINER" and painted "1789" in brown slip under the rim, which was probably a commemoration date for the buyer. Gardiner is on the Kennbec River, one of only three sites (with Portland and Bangor) in Maine to produce stoneware. In 1837, Alanson Potter Lyman (1806-1883), who was later associated with Christopher Webber Fenton (1806-1865) in Bennington, Vermont, was the business partner, and Decius W. Clark (1815-1887) the potter. The partnership lasted two years, when Lyman sold the pottery to Robert Thompson and Charles W. Tarbell. Both Lyman and Clark returned to Bennington where Clark went to work for Norton & Fenton in 1840. The large bulbous-shaped jug has a small strap handle attached to the spout and tapered base.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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