Description:
Tan-bodied stoneware jug stamp-impressed "M. CRAFTS / WHATELY / 2" in-filled with cobalt blue, over four blue spiral tendrils extending from a cluster of two spirals and two stems. Martin Crafts (1807-1880), the eldest son of potter Thomas Crafts (1781-1761), worked with his father in Whately until late 1833; he left to run potteries in Portland, Maine, Nashua, New Hampshire, and Boston, Mass. In 1857, Martin returned to Whately and ran the Crafts pottery until its close in 1861. The jug has straight sides continuing up to three-fourths of the distance up, then curving in towards the lip. The lip is very thin and is flat on its upper surface. The loop handle is laid onto the body from the lip to the shoulder. There are three finely tooled lines around the neck. The salt-glaze is thin; the interior is covered with Albany slip. The bottom is smooth.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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