This most likely unique nineteenth century red earthenware jar sold today at Merrill's Auctions in Williston, Vermont, which was recently found in a home in South Burlington, Vermont with a painted flower on one side (that was removed). The large jar was previously unknown to me, although it was possibly made somewhere in northern New England before 1860. The jar is covered on one side with inscribed script, along with the name "James Jones."
Furthermore, there was a James Jones listed in the 1856 Portland, Maine City Directory, who was employed in that year as a potter at the J.T. Winslow Pottery in Portland, however that was a stoneware factory and this is a red earthenware jar. Perhaps it is the same James Jones, and he may have been a journeyman potter, where for whatever reason he sought out work for a period in the 1850s in Portland. But this is the only instance that I can find a potter under this name working in New England.
This is also a general shape of a double-handled ovoid red earthenware jar that was made in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. Some journeyman potters also traveled throughout these four states in the 1800s, some of whom also originated in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, if the inscription on this jar can be deciphered, then it would likely add more to the story of this object, and possibly identify where it was made. This jar sold for $2,000 plus the buyer's premium.
A Large 19th Century Red Earthenware Jar
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