This is another very good stoneware object owned by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, whereas the double-handled crock with cobalt and incised decoration is inscribed, "Nancy Tuttle," with the date "June 15, 1807:" https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5466/Jar/.
According to the museum, "This stoneware pot was originally a storage vessel for cream or other foodstuffs. Decorating the body are five leaf motifs and two inscriptions—"Nancy Tuttle," near the rim, and "June 15 – 1807," below the left handle—which suggest that the pot was a wedding gift."
The Tuttle family name dates back to a number of seventeenth and eighteenth century locations in the American northeast, such as New Jersey and New York, as well as throughout New England. In fact, a number of the early Tuttles in America were descendants of William (1607-1673) and Elizabeth Tuttle (1612-1684), who migrated from England in 1635 to New England, and settled in New Haven, Connecticut in 1639.
Author and college professor Ava Chamberlain wrote in her 2012 book, The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: “The Tuttles were a family of middling status, neither gentry nor landless poor, but prosperous landowners who made a living farming and raising sheep. The brothers’ father described himself as a “yeoman.” One step on the rural social ladder below the gentry, yeomen traditionally held land in freehold having an annual value of 40 shillings or more. In practice, however, yeomen were substantial farmers who earned incomes that could range anywhere from £40 to £200 a year, trading surplus agricultural products on the growing English commodities market. That the Tuttle patriarch was a freeholder is confirmed by a 1605 list that named him one of seven men of this status in the village of Ringstead. Given that this village had no resident gentry, Simon Tuttle and his fellow yeomen would have occupied a position at the top of the local hierarchy."
Furthermore, I suspect this crock may have been manufactured in Manhattan or in the Hudson River Valley region, although I cannot find any record of a Nancy Tuttle, who would have been married in the New York area on June 15, 1807. Although, there was a Nancy Tuttle (1805-1885) born in New York City in 1805, as well as a Nancy Tuttle (1801-1876) born in 1801 in Morristown, New Jersey. There were also other women born with this name in the late 1790s and early 1800s located elsewhere in New York State, New Jersey and southern Connecticut.
Thoughts?
Note: I doubt it is related, although the shape of this crock is somewhat similar to one that sold earlier this year from New Jersey, which is now in Adam Weitsman's collection at the New York State Museum in Albany, New York: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/02/an-important-signed-19th-century.html.
Stoneware Crock Inscribed "Nancy Tuttle" and Dated "June 15 1807"
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