A 19th Century Red Earthenware Jar Found in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1973

While I have no way to definitively prove it - this nineteenth century red earthenware jar was found in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1973 by Connecticut antiques dealer Brian Bartizek, and the glaze is very similar to objects made by Mormon leader Heber Kimball (1801-1868), who was also a red earthenware potter in Mendon, New York, circa 1822-1833, as well as possibly afterwards in Ohio. Some of those existing objects that I am referencing are owned by the Church History Museum and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah.

The glaze on this jar is also similar to a double-handled jug with a bunghole, inscribed, "Ice Cream," which is thought to have been made by Kimball and owned by the Livingston County Historical Society Museum in Geneseo, New York.

Nevertheless, for more information about Heber Kimball, I recommend my latest research story published in the April 2022 issue of Maine Antique Digest, titled, Heber C. Kimball: A Mormon Potter from Western New York.

A 19th Century Red Earthenware Jar Found in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1973

19th Century American Red Earthenware Jar

Found in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1973

Glaze is Similar to Some Glazes Produced by the Mormon Potter Heber C. Kimball

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Photo Courtesy: Brian Bartizek

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