This is a really good likely late nineteenth century cold painted stoneware vase with applied roses and leaves that I found yesterday in central New Hampshire. The vase is quite large too, measuring twelve inches tall and thirteen inches across, whereas this type of applied decoration is found on a variety of red earthenware, earthenware and stoneware today that was produced by various American manufacturers in the late 1800s.
However, the basic form of this vase is also a shape that was popular with a variety of art pottery factories after 1870, including some in England, as well as the Chelsea Keramic Art Works in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Furthermore, this type of applied decoration is probably best known today based on a red earthenware vase that was decorated by John Bell's (1800-1880) daughter, Mary Elizabeth Bell in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and published on page 39 in Rice and Stoudt's book from 1929, titled, The Shenandoah Pottery.
But I also prove in my latest book available from bookstores located in major cities in America, Canada and the United Kingdom, titled A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area, that this type of applied decoration was also produced by the Goodwin Brothers in West Hartford, Connecticut (as well as undoubtedly other places in America).
Nonetheless, I believe this vase was probably made at a stoneware factory located in the Northeast, but I would not rule out a Mid-Atlantic company either. I also want to add that the size and quality of the flowers on this vase are as well-made as any American object that I have ever seen or handled - the vase is actually molded, but the flowers and leaves were all created by hand. Additionally, I suspect the paint may be original to the factory that produced this object.
Note: Earlier this year, a research story I wrote about the Galloway Terra-Cotta Company was published in the February 3, 2023 issue of Antiques & Auction News, titled, The Galloway Terra-Cotta Company Of Philadelphia: A Brief History and Examination; in this story, I referenced an original company catalog, where the prices for some of the wares were surprisingly quite high. Written on the bottom of this vase in pencil is $9.00, as well as something else that is illegible, but this may be the original price for this object.
A Great Stoneware Vase with Applied Decoration Found in Central N.H.
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