This nineteenth century red earthenware pitcher with a great glaze sold a few days ago on eBay, where it was listed by a seller located in Coventry, Connecticut. Both the form of the pitcher and the glaze match objects in the collection of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York that were made by Carl Mehwaldt (1808-1887), a German immigrant potter working in Bergholz, Niagara County, New York, circa 1850s-1880s. The Das Haus Museum in Bergholz also owns a pitcher like this example that the museum also says was made by Mehwadlt.
An interesting fact that I recently discovered while working on my forthcoming two-volume 1,000 plus page New York book is that I found Carl Mehwaldt listed as a passenger aboard the Hamburg that departed Germany on March 16, 1852 and arrived in New York City on July 1, 1852. This is how Mehwaldt migrated to America, eventually settling in the German settlement village of Berholz, where he established a red earthenware pottery, which he operated until the 1880s. Previously, there were some accounts that suggested he arrived in America in 1851, although it was actually the following year.
Nevertheless, this pitcher sold reasonably for $226.26 plus any eBay fees.
For more information about Mehwaldt, see a feature story I wrote for the October 15, 2021 issue of Antiques & Auction News, titled, Carl Mehwaldt: A Pioneer German-American Potter And 19th-Century Immigrant - Redware From Western New York State: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2021/10/print-version-of-new-published-research.html.
Also, see another feature story I wrote for the December 16, 2022 issue of Antiques And The Arts Weekly, titled, Unique Red Earthenware Rediscovered In Western New York: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2022/12/new-published-story-unique-red.html.
A 19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher from Bergholz, New York
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