With the sale of the most recent newly identified (or rediscovered) circa 1820s to early 1830s slip-decorated red earthenware jar or bottle made by the Mormon leader Heber Kimball (1801-1868) in Mendon, New York - I thought I would post all three known jars and describe their known histories.
Far Right) This jar or bottle was originally owned by Heber Kimball's son Solomon Kimball (1847-1920), whereas he donated it to the Mormon Church in 1870 with the information that his father made it. This is also when the church began to collect artifacts related to Heber Kimball who had just died in 1868, although the jar or bottle is now owned as part of the Museum of Church History in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Middle) The second jar or bottle sold through Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland in the summer of 2019 and it retains both its original lid and a history of Mormon ownership in Ohio.
Far Left) This is the most recent jar or bottle which just sold through Pook & Pook in Downington, Pennsylvania, which was owned for many years as part of the Richard and Ellen Levine Collection in New York City - see the post on this website from earlier this week to learn more about this collection: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2023/10/the-red-earthenware-collection-of-ellen.html.
Note: For more information about Heber Kimball, see a four-page feature story that I wrote for the April 2022 issue of Maine Antique Digest, titled, Heber Kimball: A Mormon Potter from Western New York: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2022/03/latest-published-research-story-heber-c.html. These objects will also be published in my forthcoming ninth book, titled, America's Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York.
Slip-Decorated Jars Made by Heber Kimball in Mendon, N.Y.
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