A Preview of Upcoming Published Articles in Maine Antique Digest

I would like to announce this afternoon that I have an upcoming feature story in Maine Antique Digest about the eighteenth and nineteenth century potter's industry in southeastern Massachusetts. This article will be released in the next issue. A lot of topics are dissected in this story, including some great archaeology, like the influence from this potter's industry found in wares exported to Rhode Island and even possibly Boston. Merchant account books are also discussed, as well as a number of wonderful surviving objects that will be illustrated. I also explain why so much green-glazed red earthenware has been found in Rhode Island in the past century that is actually from southeastern Massachusetts, as opposed to an East Greenwich, Rhode Island attribution that some of these objects have been given. Overall, I think it's an exciting article!

But I also want to announce that I have written another feature story for Maine Antique Digest, which will follow the southeastern Massachusetts article on a yet to be determined month. This is probably the most exciting article that I feel I have written - it analyzes red earthenware production in New York City in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is also a subject that has been somewhat overlooked throughout the years when compared to the remarkable stoneware production that occurred in New York City in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I have been given permission to showcase a number of incredible slipware and slip-script plates that have been recovered from privies throughout New York City, which document wares shipped to the city from businesses in Connecticut, Long Island and New Jersey. These objects demonstrate the type of wares imported into the city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I also interpret the influence of Dutch potters and Philadelphia potters in the city.

But I have also been given permission to illustrate some remarkable never before published archaeological artifacts recovered around the city that are kept today at Chrysalis Archaeology in Brooklyn and the New York State Museum in Albany. Many of these objects probably represent local production, a type of production that is hardly recognized today.

This is also a project that probably would not have happened if it were not for generous archaeologists and scholars in the New York City-area, who were kind enough to help with this project and lend their knowledge.

Nevertheless, the following nineteenth century red earthenware "Apple Pie" slip-script red earthenware plate owned by the New York Historical Society is likely an example of the type of slipware imported into New York City in the 1800s. This plate is also a small preview of the type of wares that have been recovered throughout the city.

Slip-Script Red Earthenware Plate

19th Century Slip-Script Red Earthenware "Apple Pie" Plate

Circa 1800-1850

Likely Manufactured in the Northeast

See Article for More Information

Photo Courtesy: New York Historical Society

Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...