Description:
Whitish-tan stoneware jug stamp-impressed "C. CRAFTS & CO / WHATELY MASS." with some cobalt blue in-fill, over a large blue flower or "iris" extending from a leafy stem. Caleb Crafts (1800-1854) worked with his older brother, Thomas Crafts (1781-1861) in Whately, leaving in 1834 to work in his brother-in-law Sanford S. Perry's stoneware works in West Troy, NY. In 1837, he left West Troy to work with his nephew Martin Crafts (1807-1880) in Portland, Maine, and moved to Nashua, New Hampshire, to manage the family firm from about 1843 to 1845. He returned to Whately in 1845, and ran the Whately business using "C. CRAFTS & CO.' and ""C. CRAFTS" from about 1848 to 1852/53 when ill health limited his activities. The jug has a beveled base and straight sides continuing up approximately three-fourths of distance up and then curving in towards the lip. There is no volume mark on pot, but it is approximately 1 gallon. The circumferance of the top of the lip is less than that of the bottom of the lip; a heavily tooled line circumscribes the neck directly beneath the lip. The attached loop handle extends from the lip to the shoulder. The salt-glaze is thick; the interior is covered with Albany slip. The bottom has rows of incised grooves. The cobalt seems to have not bonded and burned because it was mixed with clay.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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