Colonial Stoneware Production in Charlestown, Mass. Feature Story Published in the May 24, 2019 Issue of Antiques & Auction News

For almost a decade now, I have been researching the circa 1742-1746 Parker stoneware pottery in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which has been a subject cited in various sources since Massachusetts author Lura Woodside Watkins (1897-1982) first published her research in 1950 when Early New England Potters and Their Wares was published.

While researching this information, I have gone through every single box from the Charlestown Archaeology Collection kept at the City of Boston Archaeology Program in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. I have found some possible evidence of this production, but nothing extensive.

Nevertheless, I have also been working on a feature story about this subject for the past five or six years that I finally completed last year, and was just published in the May 24, 2019 issue of Antiques & Auction News. The story includes the history of the pottery, some advertising, a stoneware pot once owned by Watkins that is now in the collection of Historic New England, as well as some great archaeology from Charlestown.

Circa 1742-1746 Colonial Charlestown, Mass. Stoneware Feature Story

Circa 1742-1746 Colonial Charlestown, Mass. Stoneware Feature Story

Published in the May 24, 2019 Issue of Antiques & Auction News

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Here are links to the story as it appears in print:

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Here is a link to the online version (but I feel the print version is better to see):

Online version: The Parkers' Colonial Stoneware Production in Charlestown, Massachusetts

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