19th Century Black Glazed Red Earthenware Teapot Sherds Recovered in Deep River, Connecticut

More than a decade ago, English mochaware scholar Jonathan Rickard, who authored the book Mocha and Related Dipped Wares: 1770-1939 shared these photos with me, whereas he believed the smaller teapot was manufactured at the Thomas Crafts Pottery in Whately, Massachusetts, circa 1821-1833, although he was uncertain about the larger pot, which may have also been made at the Crafts Pottery in Whately or another nineteenth century teapot manufacturer in the Northeast.

Interestingly, though, he also shared a group of black glazed red earthenware teapot sherds that were similar in production that he had recovered from from his yard in Connecticut. According to Jonathan, "The sherds are from a general yard scatter about six inches below the lawn in my backyard at the Nathan Southworth House, built in 1757 in Deep River, Connecticut. They were found in company with various ceramics that included shell-edged, transfer-printed Park Scenery, dipped ware rim sections, red earthenware with a coggle-edged and slip trailing, coarse red earthenware storage vessel fragments, etc."

For reference, Deep River is located directly along the southern tier of the Connecticut River so it is certainly feasible that wares made in Whately were shipped along this river, as were a wide range of other American and domestic objects made in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. 

Additionally, some of the archaeology collected at the site of the Crafts Pottery in Whately by author Lura Woodside Watkins (1897-1982) before 1950 is now owned by the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2017/11/19th-century-red-earthenware-teapot.html.

Note: For more information about red earthenware found in the Connecticut River Valley region, see my sixth book published by Historic Beverly in Massachusetts, titled, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area, available from bookstores and retailers in America, Canada and the U.K.: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-city-on-the-river-the-early-red-earthenware-of-the-hartford-connecticut-area/

Red Earthenware Teapot Sherds Recovered in Deep River, CT

Two 19th Century Black Glazed Red Earthenware Teapots

The Smaller Teapot is Thought to Have Been Made in Whately, Mass.

The Larger Teapot was Mad Somewhere in the Northeast

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Photo Courtesy: Jonathan Rickard

Another View of the Teapots

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Photo Courtesy: Jonathan Rickard

19th Century Black Glazed Red Earthenware Teapot Sherds

Recovered on the Property of the Nathan Southworth House in Deep River, CT

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Photo Courtesy: Jonathan Rickard

19th Century Black Glazed Red Earthenware Teapot Sherds

Recovered on the Property of the Nathan Southworth House in Deep River, CT

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Photo Courtesy: Jonathan Rickard

19th Century Black Glazed Red Earthenware Teapot Sherds

Recovered on the Property of the Nathan Southworth House in Deep River, CT

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Photo Courtesy: Jonathan Rickard

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