Description:
Tall, straight-sided cylindrical tube of thrown redware, flat bottom, and slightly flared rim, covered with a lead glaze on the interior, painted on the exterior with a slightly greenish yellow paint, on the bottom of the pot is the painted red number, “91.” This object was formerly part of the Burton N. Gates Collection. The original Gates notecard for the object reads:"Deep jar: flower holder./ Col. Stirling, Mass. 1911. Red clay: glazed inside only. Said to have/ been made at the pottery. 6 in tall." Similar unglazed vases (not similar in shape but in paint color) are in the collection of the Merrimac [Essex County, MA] Town Hall. According to Lura Woodside Watkins, Early New England Potters and their Wares, "a form of household decorative pottery was made in Merrimacport in the 1870s and 1880s. She described it as a bric-a-brac product. While not a lot of information is known about this production, it was still likely under the direction of the Chase family." Similar types of painted decorative pottery were being made in Sterling, MA, too.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Redware Link to share this object record:
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