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" Condition: there is a small chip on the base of the flower pot, and some glaze chips to the ruffled edge, the base is in good shape with evidence of wear marks in the glaze where the flower pot would have come in contact with the glazed surface. 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.
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