Last night, I found this nineteenth or early twentieth century bright blue glazed red earthenware bowl on the New Hampshire seacoast; it was mixed in with a pile of stuff in a dealer's space in a vintage type shop. In fact, it was the same shop that I recently found a really good red earthenware vase made by William J. Walley (1852-1919) in West Sterling, Massachusetts.
Nonetheless, my initial reaction was that this bowl may have been made in the Midwest, although I believe it is hand-thrown rather than molded so I am no leaning more towards Pennsylvania or perhaps with some of the early Massachusetts art potters because of the cupped base and the blue glaze. The cupped base is a style found with some of the wares made by Massachusetts potters like Walley and Thomas Nickerson at the Merrimac Pottery Company in Newburyport, along with the Moses Paige Pottery in Peabody, among others.
However, these type of blue glazes were also popular with potters in Pennsylvania, such as the Stahl family, as well as others. Does anyone reading this have any thoughts?
I also want to note that the color of the bowl may have been inspired after Chinese design.
A Blue Glazed Red Earthenware Bowl Found in New Hampshire
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