EarlyAmericanCeramics.com: A 19th Century Red Earthenware Bowl that was Recently Found in a House Near Augusta, Maine

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

A 19th Century Red Earthenware Bowl that was Recently Found in a House Near Augusta, Maine

This is a nineteenth-century red earthenware bowl that I recently acquired from an antiques picker, who lives near Wiscasset, Maine. Although, the bowl was actually just found in a nineteenth-century house near Augusta, Maine.

I do not know where this bowl was specifically made, but I do feel it was made in Maine in the nineteenth-century. The rounded foot reminds me of some of the sherds that I have recently written about, which were recovered in various nineteenth-century archaeological contexts in Yarmouth, Maine - these sherds are thought to have been produced at the nearby North Yarmouth, Maine potter's industry. However, the rounded rim and the rounded foot also remind me of similar formed bowls that were made at the Ezra Porter Pottery in Wiscasset, circa 1790-1886.

Given the facts, I believe this bowl was likely made somewhere along coastal Maine, circa 1790-1860, but I am not convinced, which potter's business could be responsible. This bowl may have been made at a nineteenth-century potter's business located somewhere in Maine's Mid-Coast region.

Note: Here is a link to a bowl owned by the Maine State Museum that was made by Ezra Porter in Wiscasset, Maine - the museum's bowl was made with a similar rounded foot and rounded rim.

I have also posted a few links to articles that I have recently written about objects that were found in nineteenth-century archaeological contexts in Yarmouth, Maine - many of these objects were made with a similar rounded foot. It also appears that a number of bowls were produced at the North Yarmouth, Maine potter's industry in the 1800's.

1) Yarmouth, Maine Crawl Space Article

2) Yarmouth, Maine Privy

Bowl Recently Found in a House Near Augusta, ME