This is a $2 find from yesterday at a thrift store located to the north of Boston in Saugus, Massachusetts! And even though this colorfully glazed stoneware vase is not signed, I think this is possibly the best example of pottery that I have seen from the Roadside Craftsmen in East Bloomfield, New York, circa 1930s-1940s.
The shape of this vase matches another vase that is privately owned (see last picture) that is signed in script on the base “G.D.” and dated “48” (1948). The G.D. represents Guy Daugherty (1879-1958), a journeyman potter who mainly worked in the South, although he also worked in East Bloomfield, whereas this vase certainly appears to have been influenced by Asian pottery, as well as perhaps the glaze too. But I was told a few years ago by New York archaeologist and museum specialist George Hamell that this type of glaze was a tribute to a similar type of glaze that was produced by the early Bloomfield, New York potters in the 1800s. Furthermore, this vase probably originally had a Roadside Craftsmen sticker adhered to it.
Nonetheless, there will be a chapter devoted to the pottery made at the Roadside Craftsmen in my forthcoming 800-900 page ninth book, titled, America's Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York.
For more information - see a story I wrote that was published on page 45 in the June 30, 2023 issue of Antiques And The Arts Weekly, titled, Guy Daugherty: A Roadside Craftsmen Potter — http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2023/06/new-published-story-in-antiques-and.html?m=1East Bloomfield, N.Y. Vase Found in a Thrift Store in Saugus, Mass.
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Marked with Guy Daugherty’s stylish. “GD” Mark not GH
Thanks - yep that was a typo. I fixed it.
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