Description:
About 1765 Abraham Hews started a pottery at Weston, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of earthenware milk pans, bean pots, jugs, pudding dishes, etc. He appears to have been a man of some prominence in his community, serving as postmaster for fifty-one years. Later the pottery became famous for terra cotta jardinières, garden vases, etc. Abraham Hews died at the age of eighty-eight, when his son moved the works to North Cambridge, where the business has been conducted continuously ever since by the grandson and great-grandson. Shards from the Abraham Hews site were collected by Lura Woodside Watkins and are now in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. Colanders are used to drain and sieve food, are found in a variety of bowl-shaped forms, some footed, some handled, and generally glazed on both the inside and outside. Unusual form; cylindrical thrown large redware handled colander (oversized mug form) with attached strap handle, the rim of the strainer has a double layer of clay for strength and it is decorated with ribbing, the base and sides are pierced with small holes, unglazed exterior, glazed interior, some of the glaze has leaked through the holes. Condition: some glaze loss on the base of the interior of the strainer, a large chip from the rim of the pot, evidence on the base of a lost sticker, there is also a pencil inscription with the number "950" possibly for 9 dollars and 50 cents. Presumed to be part of the Burton Gates Collection. Origin: Pennsylvania or New England, possibly Abraham Hews Pottery, Weston, MA, c. 1820-1850.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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