Forthcoming Staten Island Research Article That Will be Published in Antiques & the Arts Weekly

Published in the October 2018 issue of Maine Antique Digest was a feature story I wrote, titled, "The Red Earthenware Available in the 18th and 19th Centuries in New York City," which highlighted terrific examples of red earthenware found throughout the city during this time period, both made locally and imported from places like Connecticut, Long Island, New Jersey and Philadelphia.

Since then, my interest with New York City's red earthenware, and especially the unknown, remains strong; in fact, I recently visited the New York City Archaeological Repository in Manhattan, in order to learn more about the city's seventeenth and eighteenth century industry.

However, I am excited to announce today that a research story I wrote about the eighteenth and nineteenth century red earthenware and stoneware found on Staten Island will be published in next week's issue of Antiques & the Arts Weekly. The story will include some exciting archaeology, as well as other important objects, such as some highly unusual red earthenware decorated in slip-script, found within a pre-1850 archaeological context.

I noted in the article that some of the stoneware found on Staten Island in the nineteenth century came from outside manufacturers, but was marked with either a stamp or in script with a local merchant's name. And this one-gallon crock is an example of that type of production. This advertising crock is attributed to the Fulper Pottery in Flemington, New Jersey, and inscribed in script, "O.M. Barber & Co. / Port Richmond / S.I."

Staten Island Stoneware Advertising Crock

19th Century One-Gallon Stoneware Crock Attributed to the Fulper Pottery in Flemington, N.J.

Inscribed in Script, "O.M. Barber & Co. / Port Richmond / S.I."

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Photo Courtesy: Crocker Farm Auctions of American Redware and Stoneware

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