This is another interesting object that I recently acquired that could have been made anywhere from Kingston, Massachusetts, Cape Cod or Bristol County, Massachusetts in the early 1800s. Although, it is an outstanding green glazed red earthenware flowerpot saucer that was previously owned by Boston antiques dealer Bill Taylor, which will also be illustrated in my forthcoming book A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod.
Nonetheless, this piece is different than many of the flowerpot saucers that I have seen from this region since it was manufactured with a crimped rim; however, the glaze is also different, seeing that it is very similar to artifacts recovered by Massachusetts author Lura Woodside Watkins (1897-1982) in Somerset, Massachusetts, now in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The artifacts that I am referencing are decorated with a green and plum colored glaze, which happens to be similar to the glaze found on this flowerpot saucer.
For those of you who are familiar with these type of objects, in theory I think they may have been made at multiple locations in southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and possibly Cape Cod in the nineteenth century. I think these are a great piece of history though decorated in just an outstanding glaze. I can only imagine how the flowerpot must have appeared that accompanied this piece!
An Outstanding Early Nineteenth Century Flowerpot Saucer from Massachusetts
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