A Very Good Probably 18th Century Red Earthenware Mug that Appeared Yesterday in Western New York

For those of you who follow Muleskinner Antiques weekly emails that typically come across on Mondays and Thursdays, then you may have seen a very good probably eighteenth century barrel-shaped red earthenware mug from New England that was advertised yesterday. The mug was decorated with a mottled green glaze and some faint black decoration; this is a type of glaze (although sometimes a lot brighter) that is found with some production in Massachusetts in the 1700s.

Interestingly, the form of this mug is also a style that Massachusetts author Lura Woodside Watkins (1897-1982) collected at the site of the circa 1760s-1790s Daniel Bayley Pottery Company in Newburyport, Massachusetts before her book Early New England Potters and Their Wares was published. The artifacts collected at the site of this business are kept today at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Below I have posted two mugs that were recovered at the site of the pottery business, although they are a little different in shape, but they are adorned with a similar glaze and a very similar base.

For more information - see my most recent published book, From One Town Came Many: The Red Earthenware Industry of Ancient North Yarmouth, Maine, where I explain in the first chapter how the Bayley Pottery contributed to the establishment of this industry in Maine in the 1790s: https://historicbeverly.net/product/94597/.

A Very Good Probably 18th Century Red Earthenware Mug

Probably 18th Century Barrel Formed Red Earthenware Mug

Possibly Made at the Daniel Bayley Pottery Company in Newburyport, Mass.

Possibly Circa 1760s-1790s

Stands About 6" Tall

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The Way the Base is Made Closer Resembles the Sherds Below

Although this Exact Shape of Mug has also Been Recovered in Newburyport, Mass.

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18th Century Red Earthenware Mugs

Recovered at the Site of the Daniel Bayley Pottery Company in Newburyport, Mass.

Circa 1760s-1790s

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Photo Courtesy: National Museum of American History 

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