A Wonderful Green-Glazed Bristol County, Massachusetts Red Earthenware Jar Discovered in a Thrift Store in New York

Last fall, I wrote about a remarkable nineteenth century slip-decorated red earthenware jar that I had just acquired, which was recently discovered inside a thrift shop in Los Angeles. I was really shocked that such a rare object could end up in such an environment, but it did.

Nevertheless, it was brought to my attention today that another wonderful object was just discovered at another thrift store; however, this discovery was made in the Hudson Valley Region in New York.

This fantastic late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century green-glazed red earthenware jar from Bristol County, Massachusetts must have been donated to the thrift store from a recent house clean out. This is a desired form of production today, especially the green-glaze, which has been coveted by collectors and museums now for more than a century. Similar examples can be found in Winterthur in Delaware, the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., Historic New England, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and so on.

Note: Here is a link to a story that I posted last summer about green-glazed red earthenware sherds from Bristol County, Massachusetts, which were recovered by archaeologists at the site of the African American Meeting House in Boston.

Bristol County, Mass. Jar Recently Found in New York

 Late-18th or Early-19th Century Red Earthenware Jar Attributed to Bristol County, Mass.

Recently Discovered in a Thrift Store in New York

Circa 1780-1820

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 Another View of the Jar

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View of the Base

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