A Red Earthenware Vase Covered in Slip Found in a Basement in Uxbridge, Massachusetts

While recently visiting central Massachusetts, I learned about this early twentieth century red earthenware vase that is entirely covered in slip, which was found in a basement in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. A first impression may suggest that this object looks like vases made in North Carolina or by the Stahl family in Pennsylvania in the 1900s, however this type of vase is also documented in photographic evidence owned by the Peabody, Massachusetts Historical Society, as having been made at the Moses Paige Pottery in Peabody, circa 1890s-1930s. 

Furthermore, my niece Alexis and myself recovered a number of red earthenware sherds entirely covered in this color of slip a few years ago at the site of the Paige Pottery when the senior center that now owns the land was widening its existing parking lot. This evidence was later published in a feature story that I wrote for the November 2017 issue of the New England Antiques Journal, titled, Digging Into the Peabody Potteries: Archaeology and Red Earthenware. This was also the last issue of the print form of this publication, which included some great colonial red earthenware archaeology from Philadelphia as the cover story.

The production of this vase is also similar to an early twentieth century red earthenware teacup and saucer that appear like objects made in the 1700s, which I posted to my Instagram account earlier this week; those pieces were made at the Paige Pottery, and most likely acquired the same year that they were made in 1912 by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

For more information about the Paige Pottery - see the second installment in my pottery book series published by Historic Beverly in Massachusetts, titled, The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-moses-b-paige-company-the-last-of-the-peabody-potteries/.

Note: Here is also a link to a story I recently posted to this website that shows some late nineteenth century documents from the M.B. Paige Pottery that were recently discovered in the Mid-Atlantic region: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2023/11/a-small-collection-of-paige-pottery.html.

Vase Covered in Slip Found in a Basement in Uxbridge, Mass.

My Niece Alexis Holding the Vase

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Red Earthenware Vase Covered in Slip Found in a Basement in Uxbridge, Mass.

Probably Made at the Moses Paige Pottery in Peabody, Mass.

Probably Circa 1890s-1930s

Stands 4 1/4" Tall

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Another View of the Vase

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Another View of the Vase

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A View of the Base

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