Some Good Examples of Red Earthenware and Stoneware Made in Massachusetts in the Late 1800s and Early 1900s

Here are three of my favorite objects that were found in New England over the last two months, whereas they include two circa 1910 Russell Crook (1869-1955) salt-glazed stoneware vases from South Lincoln, Massachusetts that I recently found in different cities in eastern Massachusetts, along with the only two miniature nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware objects that I have ever seen from the Charles A. Lawrence (1829-1904) Pottery in Beverly, Massachusetts. The tooth pick (or match) holder was found last summer at a flea market in Massachusetts, although I just acquired it in southern Maine from the person who found it at the flea market, while the miniature pitcher is something that I acquired about ten yeas ago near Beverly; interestingly, the shape of it is a miniature version of larger sized pitchers that are known from the Beverly Pottery today in various private and museum collections.

For more information about Crook - see a feature story that I wrote which was published on pages 50-51 in the February 9, 2024 issue of Antiques And The Arts Weekly, titled, The Salt-Glazed Stoneware Made By Russell Crook, South Lincoln, Mass.: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/01/published-feature-story-in-antiques-and.html.

Also, see some other stories that I have posted to this website in recent months about Russell Crook's career in New England and stoneware production --

1) A Good Example of a Salt-Glazed Stoneware Vase Made by Russell Crook in South Lincoln, Mass. Found Today in New Bedford, Mass. - http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/02/a-good-example-of-salt-glazed-stoneware.html

2) A Preview of a Forthcoming Feature Story in Antiques And The Arts Weekly - the Career of Russell G. Crook - http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/01/a-preview-of-forthcoming-feature-story.html

3) A Good Example of Russell Crook's Salt-Glazed Stoneware Production Found in Peabody, Massachusetts - http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2023/12/a-good-example-of-russell-crooks-salt.html

Note: For more information about the Beverly Pottery - see the first installment in my pottery book series, titled, The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-beverly-pottery-the-wares-of-charles-a-lawrence/.

Red Earthenware and Stoneware Made in Massachusetts

Red Earthenware and Stoneware Made in Massachusetts in the Late 1800s and Early 1900s

The Stoneware was Made by Russell Crook in South Lincoln, Mass., Circa 1910

The Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware was Made in Beverly, Mass, Circa 1870

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