A Great Late 18th or Early 19th Century Three-Color Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Jar

While visiting Western New York earlier this summer to work on my forthcoming New York book, I saw this early red earthenware jar in a dealer's inventory, where I learned that it was heading to the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association Show at Antiques Week in New Hampshire. I also had the opportunity to buy it then, and for whatever reason I did not, although I did not forget about it. And I decided not to make that same mistake again, so I purchased it yesterday at the N.H.A.D.A. Show in Manchester, New Hampshire from Victor, New York antiques dealer Gene Pratt.

This late eighteenth or nineteenth century three-color slip decorated red earthenware jar is really something else! The abstract decoration on the jar alternates between two-colored slip designs around the entire exterior, whereas the rim is glazed in a green slip. I am not sure of the manufacturer, but I suspect it was made in either Pennsylvania or another location somewhere in the Northeast. 

The only comparable or related object that I know about in a museum or private collection today is a much smaller two-color slip decorated red earthenware jar that is about four inches tall, which was previously owned by Ohio antiques dealer David Good. That object is similar although smaller in shape with the same type of green rim and a single colored slip design on two sides of the jar (see below). A Hartford, Connecticut origin has previously been suggested for this jar, but I currently do not have any evidence to prove that.

Nevertheless, the jar shown below stands ten inches tall, and it is definitely one of the more artistic examples of early American red earthenware that I have seen surface in a while, which was previously owned in a private collection in New York. 

Late 18th or Early 19th Century Three-Color Slip Decorated Jar

(Right) My Niece Alexis Holding the Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Jar

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Late 18th or Early 19th Century Three-Color Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Jar

One of Two Related Objects Known to Me to Exist Today

Likely Made in Either Pennsylvania or Somewhere Else in the Northeast

The Jar is Completely Surrounded in Slip

Previously in a New York Collection

Stands 10" Tall

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Another View of the Jar

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Another View of the Jar

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This is the Other Jar that I Believe is Related

Stands 4 1/8" Tall

Ex David Good Collection

Photo Courtesy: New England Auctions

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