A Newly Acquired 19th Century Red Earthenware Jar that was Possibly Made Along Coastal Massachusetts

This will be a short report tonight that will discuss a large red earthenware jar that I recently acquired that is decorated with a beautiful vibrant spotted orange-colored glaze. My initial feeling, when I purchased this jar, was that it was probably made in Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Maine in the nineteenth-century; however, now that I have studied the object - I feel it was probably made by a potter who was employed somewhere along coastal Massachusetts in the early-to-mid-nineteenth-century.

I have compared this jar to a group of rare red earthenware jars that I own that were likely made in southeastern Massachusetts around the turn of the nineteenth-century - and, I feel there is some kind of influence or regional characteristic seen on the newly acquired jar that is found through the double rimmed neck. All of the southeastern Massachusetts jars (a single example is shown below) that I reference exhibit a nearly identical double rim. Both of the jars shown below also feel like they were thrown in a related manner.

The newly purchased jar's lower rim reveals a sharply angled ledge, which is similar to that seen on the green-glazed southeastern Massachusetts jar seen below; however the lower rim on the southeastern Massachusetts jar is more visible in the images shown below. But, when they are compared 'in-hand' it appears that there may be a link between the rims found on these two objects.

If these jars are related - the new jar could be a new form that has not, yet been attributed or identified to the potters before who were employed in southern Massachusetts in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries.

 19th Century New England-Made Red Earthenware Jar Possibly Made Along Coastal Massachusetts

Circa 1800-1860

Stands 12 1/4" Tall

 View of the Interior

(Left) Late-18th or Early-19th Century Red Earthenware Jar Likely From Southeastern Massachusetts 

Circa 1790-1820

Stands 11 1/8" Tall

Both Jars Exhibit a Similar Double Rim

Personally, I have never seen the exact form found on the new jar before - it is a new style to me; although, I do know of the following jar that is currently for sale through the brokerage firm 'Antiques Associates at West Townsend, Massachusetts' that shares a similar form; however, there is no rim (or rims) attached. This jar is merely called a 'New England-made' object. Otherwise, I have never seen this specific form before in any of the private collections or museum collections that I have visited across the country.

Large 19th Century Red Earthenware Vase Probably Made in New England

Circa 1800-1860

Stands Approximately 11" to 12" Tall

Photo Courtesy: Antiques Associates at West Townsend, MA

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