Description:
Stoneware air-tight butter pot stamp-impressed "J.M. CRAFTS & CO / Whately Mass.", covered overall with a dark brown slip. James Monroe Crafts (1817-after 1899), one of 8 children of the potter Thomas Crafts (1781-1761) of Whately, continued the family pottery business. In 1838, James was briefly the first manager of his father's new branch of stoneware works in Nashua, New Hampshire. In late 1841 or 1842, James returned to Crafts pottery in Whately, and produced pottery under his own name until he was joined by his brother, Thomas Spenser Crafts (b.1825), using the "J.M. & T.S. CRAFTS / Whately. Mass" mark from about 1850 to 1851 when Thomas Spenser Crafts left for California to search for gold. The pot has a round, flared lip that supported a cover; straight-sided cylindrical shape with C-shaped lug handles on either side; tooled line that passes through the top of the handles; and beveled base. The salt glaze is of medium thickness; the bottom of the base has white marks made when the potter held the pot while dipping it into the Albany slip.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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