Description:
Tan-bodied stoneware jug stamp-impressed "WHATELY" in-filled with blue, over two large blue leaves extending from stems. The jug is unmarked, but was probably made by Martin Crafts (1807-1880) based on a very similarly decorated example in Henry Baldwin's book on Whately potters. Martin Crafts, 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 a round lip, tooled line around the neck just below the lip, sloping shoulders, applied coil handle extending from the lip to the shoulder, straight sides, and beveled base. The salt glaze is thin; the interior is covered with Albany slip. The bottom of the base has rows of incised grooves.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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