While visiting Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania last month, I acquired this amazing large eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware pot from Robesonia, Pennsylvania antiques dealer Greg Kramer, which recently sold in a group lot at Pook & Pook in Downington, Pennsylvania. The handles on this pot were both broken off long ago, although, I have never seen this type of pot in such a large size before or with the amount of slip that adorns this piece. I also believe this pot originated in Pennsylvania, possibly in the southeastern part of the state in the 1700s. This piece would have also originally had a lid, where I can only begin to imagine how it would have appeared.
Varying types of pots in this shape can be found in some archaeological contexts in southeastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, and surviving objects are owned by a number of museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Winterthur in Delaware, as well as the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. It should also be noted though that this form was also produced elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region, along with a Colonial stoneware example attributed to Manhattan that sold at Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland in 2020.
A Large Eighteenth or Early Nineteenth Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Pot
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2 comments:
Love it!
Never seen anything like it.
Thank you!
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