In June of 2019, I visited the Thomas Chandler stoneware exhibit with my nephew Jason at the McKissick Museum of Art at the University of South Carolina, "Swag and Tassell: The Innovative Stoneware of Thomas Chandler." That trip along with other places I had previously visited in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. led to a research story I wrote for the October 4, 2019 issue of Antiques & Auction News, titled, "Thomas Chandler's Pottery Production: McKissick Museum of University of South Carolina Holds Innovative Exhibition."
Nonetheless, New Haven Auctions held a two-day auction last weekend in New Haven, Connecticut, and this great lot of four pieces of early stoneware from South Carolina sold, including two slip-decorated jars attributed to Chandler's Pottery in Edgefield, South Carolina. The lot sold for $2,400 plus the auction premiums - I think this was an awesome lot! Often, these pieces would be sold individually.
Note: Click the links throughout this article to learn more about the Chandler exhibit and his career as a potter, an important figure who many regard as the greatest American stoneware potter, being born in Virginia, later moving to Baltimore where he worked in that stoneware industry, and finally leaving giant a impact in the historically important industry in Edgefield.
Four Pieces of 19th Century Edgefield, South Carolina Stoneware
2 comments:
The most definitive artical on Chandler was published by in Ceramics in America, published by Rob Hunter, and writen by Philip Wingard. Perhaps a reference to that?
Thanks! It's cited in the published article that I left a link to that Phil helped me with.
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