Some good examples of late eighteenth and nineteenth century American red earthenware and stoneware sold today at Marion Country Auctions in Marion, Massachusetts, whereas many of the objects were consigned from an Americana collection that was recently discovered on a house call in Florida by way of a collector who relocated from Connecticut. The first part of that collection sold a few weeks ago at Turkey Creek Auctions in Reddick, Florida.
Although, there were also some objects in today's sale that had been consigned from a local home in the Marion area, including a red earthenware jar, a harvest jug and a pitcher all made in Bristol County, Massachusetts, circa 1780-1830. However, the highlight of today's sale was a very nicely glazed red earthenware jar with a similar glazed lid from Bristol County that sold very reasonably for $4,100 plus the buyer's premium. In fact, this is one of the nicer Bristol County jars that I have seen sold in recent year, perhaps since Dr. Ed Robertson's collection sold at Northeast Auctions in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2011. But there have also been some nice jars sold at Skinner in Marlborough, Massachusetts, at Crocker Farm in Maryland, as part of Earl Curry's Collection that sold at a Willis Henry Auction in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 2013 and some objects in David Good's Collection that sold at New England Auctions in Connecticut in 2022.
Nonetheless, the red earthenware harvest jug from Bristol County is a rare form to find today, where there are only a small group of these types of harvest jugs known from this area, including the best glazed examples that are owned by a former leader at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as part of Henry Francis du Pont's (1880-1969) Collection at Winterthur Museum in Delaware. This harvest jug did have a replaced spout; it still sold for $1,400 plus the buyer's premium.
Another notable object was a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century black glazed red earthenware pitcher from Bristol County, which sold in a group lot with another black glazed red earthenware pitcher. This is also a rarer form to find today, whereas I have only seen a few examples of this exact type of black glazed pitcher through the years. There was a large chip with an old coverup repair along the rim; it sold for $350 plus the buyer's premium.
A marked set of 24 nineteenth century red earthenware candle molds in a pine frame stamped with the maker's mark of Alvin Wilcox (1801-1862) in West Bloomfield, New York sold for $1,300 plus the buyer's premium: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/175186702_candle-mold-with-24-tube-form-redware-sections. A very interesting aspect about this object is that one of the candle tubes broke in the 1800s, and it was repaired with some sort of leather make-do tube, a type of repair that I have never seen before.
Furthermore, this type of production happened at both the Alvin Wilcox Pottery in West Bloomfield and at Enos Smedley's Pottery in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Both businesses are known to have marked the candle tubes so it is difficult to differentiate where any of the unmarked examples were produced. For more information - see a cover story I wrote for the March 4, 2022 issue of Antiques & Auction News, titled, 19th-Century Red Earthenware Candle Molds Manufactured in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Western New York: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2022/03/print-version-of-my-cover-story.html.
One other notable red earthenware object from this sale was a nineteenth century barrel-shaped keg, which was similar in shape and size to some of the stoneware examples made throughout the Northeast in the 1800s. It sold for $600 plus the buyer's premium: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/175186795_redware-barrel-form-brandy-keg-19th-century.
Note: There was also a variety of stoneware in the sale, although I thought the best object in the group was this early nineteenth century stoneware jar from either New Jersey or New York with an incised flower; it sold for $1,000 plus the buyer's premium.
For the remainder of the pottery in today's sale - here is a link to the auction catalog: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/325483_spring-extravaganza/.
Here is also a link to the Turkey Creek Auctions catalog from a few weeks ago: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/325138_springtime-antique-auction/.
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