Shown below are a number of products that were mostly made in Ontario in Canada - and in many instances - I could see some of these products mistaken today for products made by American potters.
With a few of the products below, I indicate what some of these wares sold for without the added auction premiums. Regrettably, I am not positive whether the final hammer price is in American or Canadian currency, but regardless, the rarity and importance of some of these pieces is indicated in the final amount.
BOWLS
This covered so-called described sugar bowl is an incredible example of the skill that once-was in the Canadian utilitarian potter's industry. The form, size, proportions and glaze are all exquisitely produced. The hand-thrown pot was reportedly made by the potter, William Eby in Conestogo, Ontario in the nineteenth-century. I could easily see this particular example mistaken for a product made in America; nonetheless, I perceive it as a museum-quality object of nineteenth-century pottery intended for a more formal occasion in the nineteenth-century Canadian household. It's an incredible piece and it should not be surprising that it realized a final hammer price of $10,000.
Again, I want to reiterated how remarkable this piece truly is! I would love to own it!
19th Century Red Earthenware Sugar Bowl Attributed to Ontario
Reportedly Made by William Eby of Conestogo, Ontario
Only a Handful of Examples of this Form are Known to Exist Today
Measures 6 1/4" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
PITCHERS
This pitcher is a form that I have seen attributed to both Massachusetts and Vermont before. In-fact, I even believe I have seen this form attributed to a Massachusetts potter in a museum in western Massachusetts. I cannot say this form wasn't manufactured in New England, but it was also manufactured in Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century. This piece recently sold for $4,000.
19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher Attributed to Ontario
Reportedly Made by Ignatz Bitschy in New Hamburg, Ontario
Stands 7 1/4" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Handle and the Thumb Print
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
This molded-type pitcher is similar to forms that were also produced in places Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, New York and in parts of New England after 1840 - even though this example was made in Ontario in the second-half of the nineteenth-century. I actually discovered a similar potted pitcher in an antique shop in Keene, New Hampshire last fall. At the time, I wasn't sure where it was made, but I was convinced that it was not a European product - I now believe the pitcher could be a rare Canadian example that I am very-pleased to own. I regard most Canadian-made pottery of this stature as a rare commodity today.
19th Century Molded Red Earthemware Pitcher Likely Made in Early Bantford, Ontario
Stands 10 1/2" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher Likely Made in Canada
Possibly Made by Brown & Company in Bowmanville, Ontario
Ca. 1820-1860
Stands 8 1/2" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
This is another Canadian-made form that I have seen attributed to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania before - and again, I am not saying it wasn't produced in America - I am merely stating the form is a documented Canadian-style.
19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher Likely Made in Waterloo, Ontario
Attributed to the Eby Pottery
Stands 9" Tall
Ca. 1840-1850
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher with Tulip Decoration Like Made in Newland, Ontario
Attributed to the Own Sound Pottery Company
Stands 12" Tall
Ca. 1840-1860
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Handle
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
FLOWER POTS
I could easily see some of these flower pots mistaken for products made all-over the American eastern seaboard in the nineteenth-century possibly starting in the south and moving north to potters who worked in such places as Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, western New York and throughout many areas in New England. You will notice that some of the pots are decorated with a bottom glaze - this is not a unique characteristic to Canada. I have seen bottom glazes applied on nineteenth-century products (mostly flower pots) made from Maine to Pennsylvania.
19th Century Red Earthenware Flower Pot with Attached Saucer
Likely Made in Waterloo, Ontario
Stands 5 5/8" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Glazed Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
19th Century Red Earthenware Flower Pot with Attached Saucer
Likely Made in Waterloo County, Ontario or Western Ontario
Stands 5 1/8" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Glazed Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
19th Century Red Earthenware Flower Pot with Attached Saucer
Likely Made in Ontario
Stands 4 5/8" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
Three 19th Century Red Earthenware Flower Pots Likely All Mad in Ontario
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
Three 19th Century Red Earthenware Flower Pots Likely All Mad in Ontario
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
JUGS
This jug is a style that is sometimes attributed to some of the potters who worked in western New York in the mid-nineteenth-century; however, the form was also produced in Canada during the period sometimes with a similar glaze. Unfortunately, I have not handled enough of this kind of pottery to determine the difference between the two areas; although, I assume there may be a difference in form, glaze and/or the color of the clay.
19th Century 1/4 Gallon Red Earthenware Jug with Cream Glaze
Likely Made in Eastern Ontario
Ca. 1860-1880
Form is Very Similar to the Style of a Period Stoneware Jug
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
Small 19th Century Red Earthenware Jug Likely Made in Waterloo, Ontario
Ca. 1840-1860
Stands 3 1/2" Tall
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
I could easily see this jug causing confusion with a possible attribution to a number of potters who worked in New Hampshire; however, it could also be attributed to Galena, Illinios, which was an industry that sometimes produced red earthenware with this type of glaze. There is a lot of misconception today with wares that are adorned with this type of glaze. Instead, the jug is actually attributed as a very-rare example of pottery made on Prince Edward Island in the late-nineteenth-century.
This here is a very good report from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada that defines in detail the "Prince Edward Island Pottery" of the late nineteenth-century. If you have the time - I suggest reading it over.
19th Century Red Earthenware Jug Likely in Made in Ontario
Attributed to the Prince Edward Island Pottery in Ontario
Ca. 1880-1898
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
UNUSUAL FORMS
For more pictures and information about nineteenth-century Canadian-made pottery - I suggest researching these two pages. which include traditional forms and rare styles that were made in Canada in the 1800's.
19th Century Cream Glazed Red Earthenware Mortar
Stands 4 1/4" Tall
Originally Discovered in Eastern Ontario
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
View of the Glazed Base
Photo Courtesy: Maple Leaf Auctions - Carleton Place, Ontario
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