Beautifully Decorated Red Earthenware Jar Likely Made in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire

I wrote in an article that was posted in December 2019, "A feature story I wrote about Peter Clark's (1743-1826) pottery production in Braintree, Massachusetts and Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, titled, "A Pottery Moves to New Hampshire: Peter Clark and His Family in Lyndeborough" was published in the August 2016 issue of the New England Antiques Journal, now the Digital Antiques Journal.

Clark was an Essex County, Massachusetts trained potter, who established a business in Braintree in the 1760s, before migrating to Lyndeborough in January of 1775. As it would be expected, the pottery made thereafter by Clark in New Hampshire presented a strong coastal Massachusetts influence in form. He then taught his sons the trade, some of whom helped establish the industry in Concord, New Hampshire in the 1790s, which the family was involved with until the 1880s.

Some of the jars made at the Peter Clark Pottery in Lyndeborough are often attributed to Massachusetts, but archaeology and examples of Peter Clark's production in the New Hampshire Historical Society have  proven otherwise. The jars vary in size and somewhat in form, and some are manufactured with all types of incised lines. But they all present the same large round footed base (among other features), a characteristic that Clark learned in coastal Massachusetts, which he then brought with him to New Hampshire months before the Revolutionary War began."

I posted a story a few weeks ago recapping some of the pottery that sold at Garth's Auctions last month in Columbus, Ohio. This was the object that I really wanted, which I believe is related to the type of jars that I just described from Peter Clark's pottery. Although, the color of this jar is especially intriguing because I have handled this type glaze on a number of occasions based on archaeology recovered at various pottery sites throughout central and northern New England. And my reaction is always the same, saying, "Why don't we see this type of vibrant multi-colored glaze on surviving red earthenware?"

This jar is also decorated with bands of incised straight and wavy lines, but some of lines are difficult to see because they have been covered with the glaze.

Red Earthenware Jar Likely Made in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire

18th or 19th Century Red Earthenware Jar

Likely Made by the Clark Family in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire

Circa 1776-1826

Stands 5 3/4" Tall

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Another View of the Jar

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Another View of the Jar

Notice the Bands of Straight and Wavy Lines

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