We found this late nineteenth century ancient shaped hand-thrown salt glazed stoneware vase with an Albany slip glazed interior in a basement yesterday on the New Hampshire seacoast. I have never seen the shape before from an American stoneware manufacturer, or at least one working in the Northeast in the 1800s, but I suspect it my have been made at the Edmands Pottery in Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1870s to 1880s or thereabouts.
This type of ancient production and decoration was quite popular with a number of potters working in the Boston area during this period, including the Chelsea Keramic Art Works in Chelsea, the New England Pottery Company in East Boston and the A.H. Hews Pottery in North Cambridge, among other businesses.
Although, the style of the paint is what really piqued my interest, seeing that the olive branches that cover this vase are a type that were often painted on the Isle of Shoals and on the seacoast by Celia Thaxter (1835-1894), however she typically used more refined plain white imported European ceramics. But most of those ceramics were ancient in form.
The rolled rim and the band that is circling the vase are painted gold, while the rest of the exterior is painted white with olive branches painted on top of it.
19th Century Ancient Shaped Salt Glazed Stoneware Vase
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