Here are a couple of good finds that I came across last night in Boston - two miniature red earthenware porringers from the 1800s that survive in great condition! Interestingly, I showed the reddish colored one to a friend in New York, and the thought is that it is very possibly one of the few miniatures pieces known to exist from the Huntington Pottery on Long Island in New York today. The black glazed one may also be from Long Island, otherwise I suspect it is from down around the Philadelphia area in southeastern Pennsylvania from the early to mid-nineteenth century or perhaps even New Jersey.
Miniature Red Earthenware Porringers Found Last Night in Boston
Furthermore, I quickly scanned through the book Useful Art Long Island Pottery last night in order to see if there were any miniatures illustrated, and I was surprised to see this pair of decorative urns shown on page 58. According to the information that was published with them, "They were made at Graham's Chemical Stoneware Works in Brooklyn, circa 1895. According to Heinrich Reis, the photographer, the Graham works made this pair of ornamental vases. These vases, which have not been located, bear testimony to the fact that potters working for some industrial firms remained skilled craftsmen. The vases and their bases appear to be adaptations of the firms chemical stoneware - the bases are straight pipe and the vase form appears to be a type of acid receiver. Despite this, the decoration and glazing they were given are unique."
Additionally, I asked Long Island scholar and collector Anthony Butera Jr. last night if these vases were still missing, seeing that this book was published in 1985, and he said their whereabouts are still unknown today. He added, "There were so many big estates out on Long Island and stuff like that was probably put outside in gardens, and then just weathered and destroyed!"
Although with all of this said - has anyone seen anything like these before?
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