Description:
Often taken for granted, the humble flower pot was critical to the development of horticulture. Common garden flower pots were left unglazed; while pots for ornamental, indoor plants could be decorated with ruffled rims and colored glazes. Rare small, thrown redware flower pot with separate undertray or base, the flower pot has a flaring trumpet shape with a flat bottom and a ruffled edge or rim, the circular base or undertray has a ruffled rim, both pieces are decorated with a dark green glaze with splotchiness of on the lower half of the pot and on the tray; the glaze goes about half way inside the pot's interior, the base of the pot is unglazed and has a hole in the center, there is a pencil inscription on the bottom, which is illegible "Col. 1918?", the circular tray has an unglazed underside, it has a pencil inscription which reads: " Mrs. S. A. Parker/ Barnstable/ Cape Cod Pottery." This object was originally part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. Current attribution provided by American ceramics scholar Justin Thomas, 1/16/2019. According to Thomas, a related flower pot sold by Skinner's exhibited similar speckled green glaze coloration as this example. Shards of a green-glazed flower pot with a ruffled rim and incised decoration have been found at Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH, near the Puddle Dock area.
Subjects:
Redware; glaze (coating by location); Copper; Pottery Link to share this object record:
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