This is another object that I recently acquired in Western New York, while conducting research for a forthcoming New York book that should be out sometime next year. I actually found this three-handled green glazed earthenware vase just outside of Buffalo, although I am not sure of the maker, but I am fairly certain that it is from North Carolina, and made during the first-half of the twentieth century.
Additionally, it is really the variegation and rivulets in the green glaze that struck me as special about this object, which I was told by North Carolina pottery collector Larry Gilliam that this affect appears to have been caused by fly ash picked up from wood burning in the kiln. I also suspect that the inspiration for the form of this object came from ancient Asian design.
Does anyone reading this post recognize the potter or workshop that this object may have originated at during the circa 1925-1950 period? My thought is that this vase may have been made at the Smithfield Art Pottery in Johnston County, North Carolina, circa 1927-1942, however that is just a guess, whereas I have no concrete proof of it.
Green Glazed North Carolina Vase Recently Found in Western New York
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