This is a big pot and a good find yesterday at the antique shows in Brimfield, Massachusetts! This American most likely nineteenth century stoneware pot is hand-thrown (not molded), stands twenty and one-half inches tall and I suspect is ten gallons in capacity. It is decorated in a Rockingham-type glaze, however, the majority of Rockingham glazed wares made in places like Canada, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, among other locations were produced from molds. Although, there were exceptions, such as the John Bell (1800-1880) Pottery in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, where they created hand-thrown and molded Rockingham glazed wares from both red earthenware and stoneware.
But as I previously noted, this pot is not molded - it is hand-thrown, and in fact, the band extending around the exterior suggests that this pot was probably thrown in two-halves and then joined together. This is a technique that I have found was more commonly used with larger stoneware pots manufactured in the southern states, considering that is where some of the largest hand-thrown pots were produced in America in the 1800s.
Interestingly, though, the dealer who I bought this jar from had traveled to Brimfield from Alabama, setting up at the New England Motel & Antiques Market; he told me that he recently found this pot at a flea market in Phenix City, Alabama. I also suspect this pot was made in the South or the Mid-Atlantic region, circa 1840-1880.
An Impressive Hand-Thrown Stoneware Pot Recently Found at a Flea Market in Alabama
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