Forthcoming Feature Story in Maine Antique Digest: Baltimore's Red Earthenware Production

I just wanted to announce that I signed a contract last week for a lengthy feature story I wrote that includes over forty pictures about eighteenth and nineteenth century red earthenware production in Baltimore, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Maine Antique Digest. Furthermore, this is a subject that is not widely known today, although there is information out there largely thanks to privy diggers in the city and archaeological artifacts. And if it were not for these types of objects and the people who have recovered them, then much of this type of production would probably be forgotten today.

The story highlights Baltimore's circa 1760s-1850 red earthenware production based on a wide variety of wares that have been recovered from various contexts in the city. These objects include a mug recovered from a circa 1760s context that is thought to have been made by Baltimore's first red earthenware potter, to the various types of locally produced slip decorated red earthenware, as well as a wide variety of other objects. 

I also cite information about some of the city's stoneware production from previous published material, as well as the important role of Thomas Chandler in Baltimore and his impact elsewhere in America.

Forthcoming Feature Story in Maine Antique Digest

My Nephew Jason Holding a Baltimore Made Red Earthenware Chamber Pot

It is Decorated with a Stylized Swan in Slip

This Photo was Taken a Few Years Ago in Baltimore

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