EarlyAmericanCeramics.com: 18th or 19th Century Essex County, Mass. or New Hampshire Jug that Sold Yesterday in South Deerfield, Mass.

Saturday, January 25, 2020

18th or 19th Century Essex County, Mass. or New Hampshire Jug that Sold Yesterday in South Deerfield, Mass.

This eighteenth or nineteenth century red earthenware jug sold yesterday at Douglas Auctioneers in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. The form appears like jugs made in Essex County, Massachusetts, as early as the eighteenth century, but the handle terminal also looks like some production in New Hampshire in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. This type of New Hampshire production was also heavily influenced by Essex County trained potters, who migrated to New Hampshire during the circa 1775 to 1820 period.

Nevertheless, this is a particularly colorful example, heavily decorated in splashes of manganese; in fact, the color and decoration is similar to wares made by William Pecker (1758-1820) in Merrimacport, Massachusetts, but the form does not appear to be related. It is also similar to wares made by the Osborns and other families in South Danvers (Peabody after 1855), Massachusetts.

18th or 19th Century Essex County, Mass. or New Hampshire Jug