Description:
Whitish-grey stoneware jug stamp-impressed "J.M. CRAFTS & CO / Whately, Mass / 2" in-filled with cobalt blue, over two large blue flowers extending from a a leaf. 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 1848 when he was was joined by his brother, Thomas Spenser Crafts (b.1825), using the "J.M. & T.S. CRAFTS / Whately. Mass" mark until 1850. The jar has a round lip, sloping shoulders, tooled line around the body just below the two C-shaped lug handles, straight sides, and beveled base. The bottom has rows of incised grooves. The salt glaze is of medium thickness; interior is covered with Albany slip.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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