A Wonderful Early-19th Century Green Glazed Flower Pot Recovered in Portsmouth, NH

In keeping with many of my previous reports, I would like to revisit one of my recent posts - where I introduced a wonderful green glazed flower pot uncovered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in an early nineteenth-century context. The origin of this pot is currently unknown; although, it is certainly from a New England potter located in either Maine, New Hampshire or Massachusetts. But I would like to suggest the Dodge Pottery in Portsmouth, NH as a possible origin, circa 1790s to 1880s.

Nevertheless, all of the domestic red earthenware recovered in Portsmouth, which I have seen at the Strawbery Banke Archaeology Department in Portsmouth appears to have been made in Maine, New Hampshire and Essex County, Massachusetts. And that is why I suggest the flower pot may have been produced in these areas; although the green glaze does remind me of products made in southeastern Massachusetts during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries.

The flowerpot is large, where it probably measures around eight-to-ten inches tall and it may have also originally been used with a matching flower pot saucer.

Flower Pot Recovered in Portsmouth, NH

 Early 19th Century Green Glazed Red Earthenware Flower Pot Sherds

Excavated in Portsmouth, NH Near Puddle Dock
Possibly Made at the Dodge Pottery in Portsmouth, NH
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Photo Courtesy: Strawbery Banke Archaeology Dept. - Portsmouth, NH

 

More of the Green Glazed Flower Pot Sherds Recovered at this Site

Photo Courtesy: Strawbery Banke Archaeology Dept. - Portsmouth, NH

 

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