A number of good examples of late eighteenth and nineteenth century red earthenware and stoneware sold last weekend at New Haven Auctions in Branford, Connecticut, although I was probably most curious about this American stoneware bottle with a snake wrapped around it. My curiosity was largely a result of the bottle, which looks Asian or Chinese influenced in form, and then the snake is further embellished with cobalt decoration.
No information was provided about where this piece may have originated, however it was previously owned by Ohio antiques dealer and collector David Good, who helped build George Myer's face jug collection that is now illustrated in a book, titled, Early American Face Jugs, and has been displayed at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York and the South Carolina State Museum.
The sale also included some good red earthenware, such as a green glazed jug from Bristol County, Massachusetts and a Massachusetts jug that is illustrated in my book, The Dawn of Independence, the Death of an Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts, as well as a number of examples of American stoneware.
The snake bottle sold for $400 plus the auction premium.
Stoneware Bottle with a Cobalt Decorated Snake
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