There are certainly some pieces illustrated in my new forthcoming 400 plus page book from Historic Beverly in Massachusetts, titled, A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod, which I would love to know where they are located today. Although, this late eighteenth or early nineteenth century red earthenware bowl is certainly at the front of that list; it sold in Crocker Farm's fall 2007 sale in Maryland.
An attribution for this bowl is somewhat difficult to make without more evidence, seeing that the glaze is different, but also extraordinarily desirable at the same time. However, the form of the bowl is a type manufactured throughout coastal central and northern New England in the 1700s and early 1800s. But it is the glaze that really speaks to me, which could be related to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century Bristol County red earthenware jar that I have posted below from Historic New England and Nina Fletcher Little's (1900-1993) Collection at Cogswell Grant in Essex, Massachusetts. This jar is also published in Figure 43 in Lura Woodside Watkins' (1897-1982) book, Early New England Potters and Their Wares.
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