While out yesterday in the Boston area, we stopped into a group shop in Waltham, Massachusetts, where we found this large nineteenth century alkaline glazed stoneware bowl, which appears to me to be more in line with bowls manufactured in Edgefield, South Carolina, circa 1840/50 or later, instead of others made in places like Georgia and Texas. The bowl measures 10 1/2 inches in diameter, stands 5 inches tall, and survives in excellent condition. I also want to note that this bowl was manufactured with curved walls rather than a number of the southern alkaline glazed bowls that are produced with sharper angled or straight sided walls. The rim was also intentionally left unglazed, which was often used so bowls could be stacked in the kiln.
Some characteristics of this bowl, including the unglazed and everted rim, the wide flat rim, as well as the curved walls have been recovered in archaeological evidence at the circa 1848-1900/1910 B.F. Landrum stoneware kiln site (38AK496) in Edgefield, although this technique was also used elsewhere.
Although, this bowl may have also been made in Alabama even though I can't find any records of this form. Thoughts - South Carolina or Alabama?
There's plenty of published information available about wares made in Edgefield in the 1800s, including a number of articles written through the years for Ceramics in America and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. But I also wrote a three-page story about the Thomas Chandler (1810-1854) exhibit that was displayed a few years ago at the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, published in the October 4, 2019 issue of Antiques & Auction News, titled, "Thomas Chandler's Pottery Production: McKissick Museum Of The University Of South Carolina Holds Innovative Exhibition."
Link to page one of the article: https://www.scribd.com/document/428857829/Thomas-Chandler-Exhibit-at-the-McKissick-Museum-at-the-University-of-South-Carolina
Link to page two of the article: https://www.scribd.com/document/428858296/Thomas-Chandler-Exhibit-at-the-McKissick-Museum-at-the-University-of-South-Carolina
Link to page 3 of the article: https://www.scribd.com/document/428858346/Thomas-Chandler-Exhibit-at-the-McKissick-Museum-at-the-University-of-South-Carolina
And for more information about stoneware made in Alabama - I suggest Joey Bracker's book published by the University of Alabama, titled, Alabama Folk Pottery.
A 19th Century Southern Alkaline Glazed Stoneware Bowl Found Yesterday in Waltham, Mass.
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