Earlier this year, Crocker Farm sold a circa 1850-1880 hand-modeled red earthenware figure of a seated spaniel on an oval base with a hollow interior - the dog was included in the company's Summer 2022 sale in Sparks, Maryland.
Interestingly, I acquired a spaniel from the same manufacturer a few months ago from a collection of various red earthenware and stoneware spaniels, most of which were molded and made in the Midwest. However, among the characteristics that appealed to me about this object is the fact that the base has the word "Lake" written on it in pencil.
There was an East Lake Pottery in Bridgeton, New Jersey, where a good amount of the wares made in this area were influenced by production in Philadelphia. This includes George Francis Hamlyn (1849-1923), who was born in Philadelphia, and he may have trained there as well, however his father and mother migrated to the city from England, and Hamlyn is listed as a potter working in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1880. Although, in the 1889-1890 Cumberland County City Directory, there is an advertisement that lists Hamlyn as the proprietor of the East Lake Pottery in southern New Jersey. He states that he is a “Manufacturer and Dealer in Stone, Earthen, Rockingham, and Terra Cotta Ware, Wholesale and Retail. Artistic and Unique Designs in Fancy Pottery made to order.”
Nevertheless, I suspect this is most likely an object from Pennsylvania, however I am not sure where it originates from, but the the word "Lake" is certainly a curiosity factory.
A 19th Century Red Earthenware Figure of a Seated Spaniel
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