Another example of stoneware manufactured at the William Pecker (1757-1820) Pottery in South Amesbury (Merrimacport), Massachusetts about 1810 or thereabouts has been identified, and this example recently surfaced in New Hampshire.
You may recall that I posted about a jug that I acquired out of New Jersey in September that was decorated with some cobalt and impressed with an upside down "Wm PECKER" mark. This latest jug is also adorned with an upside down mark, and quite slumped from how it was fired in the kiln.
I find every single piece of Pecker stoneware that surfaces to be exciting, seeing that basically only one piece was widely known fifteen years ago, having been published in the 2004 issue of Ceramics in America. And since then, a lot of archaeology and some surviving pieces have helped shed a lot of information about William Pecker the stoneware potter, a type of production that had been forgotten, and instead he was basically only identified as a red earthenware potter for at least the last 100 years.
For more information about the utilitarian wares manufactured in Merrimacport, I recommend my latest published book that was just reviewed by Maine Antique Digest, titled, South Amesbury's Red Earthenware & Stoneware: The 1791-1820 William Pecker Pottery.
A Stoneware Jug Manufactured at the William Pecker Pottery in Merrimacport, Mass.
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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