Description:
English pearlware, oval sauceboat with a wavy rim, slightly fluted body, and loop handle, which is decorated with a green shell-edge around the rim and foot rim. The sauceboat, which was bought from Mrs. J. Douglas Abercrombie, came with a hand-written note: "This Green Gravy Boat was in common use in 1775." Mrs. Abercrombie had also sold Historic Deerfield three pieces from a Castleford-style teaset (HD 86.005.1-.3), which had the hand-written note: "Grandmothers Ambercrombie's / China / Old Wedgwood Tea Set 3 pieces / Green edge Sauce boat. / Martha McCullough / wife of Isaac Abercrombie." In 1742, Robert Abercrombie (1712-1786) emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Pelham, Massachusetts; he and his wife, Margaret Stevenson Abercrombie (d.1765), had 10 children; their son, Isaac Abercrombie (1759-1847) married Martha McCullough (1768-1837) in 1790, and they moved from Pelham to the Cheapside section of Deerfield (now in Greenfield) about 1830. Their son, Asiel Abercrombie (1807-1874), married Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1817-1906), the daughter of Aaron Fuller (1786-1859) and his first wife, Elizabeth Hill Fuller (d.1818) of Deerfield, in 1845. Asiel and Elizabeth Abercrombie had three children who lived: Robert (b.1846), William Hyslop, and Hattie Fuller (1860-1955); only Robert married - Ellen Margaret Crawford in 1873. Robert and Ellen's son, James Douglas Abercrombie (b.1878) was the father of James Douglas Abercrombie (1913-1978), husband of the donor.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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