Description:
Tan-bodied stoneware jug with handle, stamp-impressed "S.S. PERRY / TROY" in-filled with cobalt blue. Sanford S. Perry appears first in Whately, Massachusetts in 1817, where he was the first Whately potter to produce black-glazed redwares (teapot inscribed 1817 is in the Whately Historical Society). He left Whately about 1821, possibly after selling his glaze formulae to Thomas Crafts (1781-1861), and was in Troy, NY, about 1823, where he worked in earthenware and stoneware. After his partnership with Israel Seymour dissolved in 1828, Perry operated a reasonably successful business in Troy until 1833, using the marks "S.S. PERRY / TROY", "PERRY TROY" and "S.S.PERRY." Perry moved to West Troy after a fire in 1833, where he used "S.S. PERRY / WEST TROY", "S.S. PERRY & CO.", and "S.S. PERRY &CO. / WEST TROY." In financial difficulties, Perry lost the business in 1836, and moved to Virginia where he was listed in the 1850 census of Charles County as a potter, apparently working at the Trees Point Pottery. The jug has a narrow mouth; coil handle attached to the spout and sloping shoulders; bulbous-body tapering to a flat base; and rows of incised grooves on the base.
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