Wonderful Pair of 19th Century Red Earthenware Jars from Maine

This is a great pair of nineteenth century red earthenware jars that I just acquired with their original lids, which were most likely made at the Benjamin Dodge Pottery in Portland, Maine. The jars have also been slip-decorated with household ingredients.  Very few of these jars are known to exist today; although, Boston antiques dealer, Stephen Score is said to have owned an entire set of about a dozen at one time. The jars and lids are also stamped with matching numbers.

These particular jars were sold out of Skowhegan, Maine, and the production was possibly inspired from somewhat similar made wares in places like Sussex, England in the early-nineteenth century.

I will eventually post better pictures, but in the meantime, I wrote about this type of production in a research story that was published in the February 2018 issue of Maine Antique Digest, titled, "The Dodges and Their Potteries."

Wonderful Pair of 19th Century Red Earthenware Jars from Maine

19th Century Red Earthenware Jars with Slip-Decorated Ingredients

Very Likely Made at the Benjamin Dodge Pottery in Portland, ME

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