For anyone interested - I would like to give advance notice that I have a research article coming out in the next month or so in Antiques And The Arts Weekly that will cover the history of pottery production by the Hews family in Weston and North Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1780-1960s. I compiled a lot of new information over the years about this company through various archaeology collections, museum collections and a potter's daybook kept at the Baker Library at Harvard University in Cambridge.
For example, I wrote about a business envelope from A.H. Hews Pottery in North Cambridge last week that was recently found in an estate in Southern California, which was addressed to Moses B. Paige of Peabody, Massachusetts.
Here is another recent discovery: Shown to the left is a nineteenth century painted earthenware or stoneware pitcher with a brown glazed interior that I found over the weekend in Cambridge. It is unmarked, although the style and colors of the painted decoration is similar to that shown on the nineteenth century red earthenware Easter egg that is marked on the base, "A.H. HEWS & CO. / NO. CAMBRIDGE / MASS." The egg was found a few years ago in a thrift store in Fall River, Massachusetts, and later published in a story in the April 15, 2019 issue of the Digital Antiques Journal. Furthermore, I also found the painted decoration on the pitcher of particular interest because it is signed by the artist.
Note: Aside from my forthcoming 540 page sixth book from Historic Beverly, titled, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area -- here are some other published articles that I have coming out in Antiques & Auction News and Antiques And The Arts Weekly -- 1) Face Jugs Made in West Tennessee, 2) 20th Century North Carolina Pottery Found Throughout New England, and 3) The Thomas Commeraw Exhibit at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan.
Painted 19th Century Pitcher and Easter Egg
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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