A Collection of Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Northeast Auctions sold a large collection of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century European pottery yesterday at the Treadwell Mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. While there were condition issues with some of the pieces, it was still an excellent opportunity to see a variety of wares that would have been used in Colonial America. In fact, a lot of this production was represented in the archaeology of two shipwrecks that I wrote about a few weeks ago off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire en route for Portsmouth's harbor.

Aside from the tin-glazed earthenware, bellarmine stoneware and slipware, an object that piqued my interest was a circa 1800 creamware jug with the inscription, "Success to the Fortitude of Charlestown (Massachusetts)."

Nevertheless, the following group of photos demonstrate how most of the pottery appeared at the sale. I was also told that a lot of this collection had been assembled in the 1990s.

Collection of Pottery Sold in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

 Variety of European Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 Variety of European Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Combware Dish that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 European Stoneware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  English Slipware and Combware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Combware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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English Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 German Stoneware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  German Stoneware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  German Stoneware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  German Stoneware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  English Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  English Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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  English Sgraffito Slipware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Red Earthenware that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 Variety of European Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 Variety of European Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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 English Creamware Jug

Inscribed "Success to the Fortitude of Charlestown"

Circa 1800

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 View of the Inscription

Inscribed "Success to the Fortitude of Charlestown"

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 Variety of European Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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Variety of European Pottery that Sold Yesterday at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, NH

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