In Los Angeles -- this large early nineteenth century multi-color slip decorated red earthenware dish sold over the weekend at Abell Auction Company, which is based in Commerce, California. The sale featured a number of wonderful antiques, much of which came with strong provenances and made on the East Coast in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Although, this slip decorated dish was the best piece of American utilitarian pottery featured in the sale.
Interestingly, the triple rim and the style of the slip are techniques found with wares made in Hagerstown, Maryland, which is where I thought this piece originated. And the style of the slip as well as the colors are reminiscent to some wares made in Hagerstown by Henry Adam, circa 1805-1819, such as a covered bowl owned by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, along with other known objects.
But this type of slip decoration is also found in New Market, Virginia, which is where Christian Adam and Jacob Adam ran a shop; their brother was Henry Adam, and they purchased the New Market shop from their brother-in-law John Brouse in 1811. Outstanding examples of this type of New Market production can be found in the Yale University Art Museum in Connecticut, as well as other museums.
Nevertheless, this dish sold for $3,250 plus the auction premium.
A Wonderful Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Dish
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