By chance, I found this wonderful early-nineteenth-century red earthenware bowl buried deep in a shop near Alton Bay, New Hampshire. I want to emphasize, the fact, too that this bowl feels and appears early (to me).
This bowl could possibly be an eighteenth-century New England-made product from either coastal Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
Similar documented bowls were manufactured in places like coastal New Hampshire and coastal Massachusetts after 1760. This bowl has a certain feel to it that suggests (to me) that it could be an early piece of New England-made red earthenware from a period of production that is rarely seen today.
I have personally handled similar-glazed, and formed red earthenware bowls that were made at the Daniel Bayley Pottery Company in Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1766-1799. These bowls are owned in the Lura Woodside Watkins Collection at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and in Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Although, there are similar documented bowls that were made elsewhere in New England, in places, such as coastal Massachusetts and coastal New Hampshire before 1800, as well.
I plan to further research this object - and, I hope I can present more information about its place of manufacture soon enough. My thought is the unusual base could be used as a characteristic that may potentially provide an attribution for this bowl.
Note: I did not photograph the base closely, but it was manufactured with an unusual sharp edge.
Possibly 18th Century Bowl Made in New England
Circa 1760-1820
Stands 2 5/8" Tall
Measures 6 3/4" in Diameter
Found Yesterday in a Small Shop Near Alton Bay, NH
Another View of the Bowl
View of the Interior
View of the Base
Another View of the Base and Glaze
Another View of the Base and Glaze
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