This is a form that is often associated today with twentieth century earthenware and stoneware production in various parts of North Carolina, although pinch bottles were also a type produced by utilitarian red earthenware potters located elsewhere in America in the nineteenth century. For instance, there will be a pinch bottle illustrated in my forthcoming 629-page New Hampshire book that is privately owned in New England and thought to have been made by the Clark family in New Hampshire or another related business in the state.
Furthermore, I just acquired this exceptionally glazed pinch bottle that is either made out of under-fired stoneware (thus the red colored clay) or red earthenware, although the clay does appear to be porous. Additionally, the person who I purchased it from just found it in a house near Saratoga, New York.
Nonetheless, the glaze is really something else, whereas the manufacture of this object does not really fit with what I know about as pottery made in North Carolina (i.e. pinch bottles, weight, clay, etc.), including the wire-cut base, a style often found with a number of stoneware potters in the Northeast. Thoughts?
Exceptionally Glazed Pinch Bottle Found in New York
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