Upcoming Published Feature Story in Maine Antique Digest: The Bradford Family Potteries in Massachusetts

When I entered the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show last weekend at the armory in Hartford, Connecticut with my nephew Jason, the first booth we visited was that of Camden, Ohio antiques dealer, David Good. I immediately noticed a beautifully glazed earthenware pitcher with an unmistakable coggle decoration; this is the same coggle decoration that I demonstrated last year, which was heavily represented in sherds recovered by Massachusetts author, Lura Woodside Watkins (1897-1982) in 1945, as well as a group of archaeologists in 1996 at the site of the Bradford family pottery in Kingston, Massachusetts.

After five-or-so years of researching the Bradford family's eighteenth and nineteenth century earthenware production in Kingston and West Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, I wrote a feature story late last year about this family's three generations of manufacturing utilitarian pottery, which will soon be published. I believe the plan is to run this story in the May 2019 issue of Maine Antique Digest.

The story will cover the history of the potteries, extensive archaeology, recent scholarship, the Christopher Huntington Collection, privately owned objects, along with pieces owned by museums, such as Winterthur in Wilmington, Delaware, the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Wonderful Pitcher with a Distinct Coggle Decoration

Early-19th Century Lead Glazed Earthenware Pitcher

Seen in the Booth of David Good Last Weekend at the CT Spring Antiques Show in Hartford

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Photo Courtesy: David Good

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