New Forthcoming Book - A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford Connecticut Area

I have just begun working on my next book! My fifth book, A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod is basically finished, and due out later this year from Historic Beverly in Massachusetts. The tentative title for the new book is A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford Connecticut Area. I hope to see this new book in publication as part of my New England pottery book series sometime in the winter or spring of 2022. Although, I wanted to get this information out there as soon as possible in case there is anyone who has good examples of local Hartford red earthenware that they would like to have included in the book. Please feel free to contact me!

These illustrations are good examples of two pieces of red earthenware made in West Hartford in the early 1800s; both were painted in 1938 by Philip Smith for the Surveys of Index of American Design at the National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. They were then later published in 1971 in Harold F. Guilland's book, Early American Folk Pottery.

Again though, please feel free to contact me should you have any good Hartford red earthenware that you would like to have documented in the book!

A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford Connecticut Area

West Hartford, CT Slipware Painted for the Index of American Design in 1938

Circa Early 1800s

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Photo Courtesy: National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute

Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...