Late last night, Flying Pig Auctions sold this slip decorated red earthenware pan in Westmoreland, New Hampshire; the pan was a part of the Jeanne and Anthony Rodrigues Antiques Collection of Warren, Rhode Island. The couple's collection was accumulated over forty years, searching all-over New England, for what they considered to be the finest antiques of their particular interest.
This pan really sparked my interest, seeing that it is associated with post Revolutionary War eighteenth century production in southeastern Massachusetts. To my knowledge, the location or potter's business that this distinct type of slip decoration was manufactured has not been identified, although, it very well may have happened in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Similar examples are kept in the Lura Woodside Watkins (1897-1982) Collection in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, which are attributed to southeastern Massachusetts.
These type of slip decorated pans are often associated with early production in New England - and while a lot of pans were made in the region, there are only so many areas that are documented with having produced pans with slip. Those areas include the Colonial industry in Charlestown, Massachusetts, possibly Colonial production in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the circa 1763-1799 production in Newburyport, Massachusetts, possibly South Danvers (now known as Peabody), Massachusetts and West Hartford, Connecticut, along with southeastern Massachusetts. I should also note that I cannot recall having seen this exact type of slip decorated pan manufactured in Norwalk, Connecticut in the 1800s.
The pan sold for $1,100 plus the auction premiums.
18th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Pan
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