This was quite a surprise yesterday! I found this early small globular formed stoneware jug with its original pewter lid in a vintage/thrift type store in New England. The jug is covered with applied sprig molds of an urn with flowers that include tulips, whereas it was made in Westerwald, Germany, likely circa 1670-1680. It also survives in excellent condition!
These types of globular jugs can be seen both above and below ground today with a variety of sprig molds, such as this example, although I found a similar type of applied decoration on a jug owned by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London that they say was manufactured during the circa 1640-1660 period. The form of the museum's jug is quite different, however the applied decoration is similar.
Furthermore, this jug stands just 5 1/2 inches tall, not including the pewter lid; this type of jug (not the exact applied decoration) has also been recovered from various American archaeological contexts, including multiple circa 1600-1775 contexts in New York City. For example, I posted a stoneware sherd below that was found in a 1600s context from the New York City Archaeological Repository that is most likely from a similar type of globular shaped jug recovered in 1981 at 7 Hanover Square in Manhattan.
According to the archaeology of the site, "The deposit (that the sherd was recovered) is a sub-landfill deposit located beneath the 17th-century landfill in the southern portion of Lot 13. These deposits were most likely the result of river bottom silting. According to the site report, it is thought that the area was once marshy, accounting for the build-up of two and a half feet of deposits and their high organic content. By the 17th century, the marsh was probably covered by the river and the cultural materials in it were likely thrown into the river from the shore or from boats and settled into the silt."
Interestingly, it was just about exactly one year ago that I found another example of seventeenth century German stoneware in a similar type of shop located elsewhere in New England - here is a link to that story: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2022/10/an-excellent-example-of-seventeenth.html.
Likely A Good Example of Seventeenth Century German Stoneware
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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Do you wish to sell it?
Holding onto it for now!
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