An Early 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Pot Found this Week at Antiques Week in New Hampshire

There was a lot to see and do this week as part of Antiques Week in New Hampshire, although I was thrilled to bring home this early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware double-handled pot; I found it in the booth of New England antiques dealer Steve Corrigan, but he told me that it was on consignment from another antiques dealer. 

I initially thought it was from Vermont just merely because of the yellow or rust colored glaze, however after handling the object and showing it to some knowledgeable friends, I realized that the form is a known shape that I have studied that was produced at some of the potteries in Ontario County and Monroe County in Western New York. But the three lines of different colored slip also closely match a style known on three jars that were made by the Mormon leader Heber Kimball (1801-1868) in Mendon, Monroe County, New York in the 1820s and early 1830s. Two of these objects are currently privately owned, while the third was owned by one of Kimball's sons in the nineteenth century and is kept today as part of the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of the privately owned jars also retains a history of Mormon family ownership. 

Additionally, this object is decorated on both sides with a “dendritic” or seaweed decoration, a style of decoration popular on English Mochaware during this period, whereas this is now possibly the second object known from the 1820s in Monroe County that is copying a type of decoration found on Mochaware.

For more information - see a four-page feature story I wrote about Kimball that was published on pages 138-141 in the April 2022 issue of Maine Antique Digest, titled, Heber C. Kimball: A Mormon Potter from Western New York: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2022/03/latest-published-research-story-heber-c.html. There will also be an entire chapter about Kimball in my forthcoming two-volume books, titled, America's Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York.

Early 19th C. Red Earthenware Pot Found this Week at Antiques Week in N.H.

Early 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Pot with Two Handles

Possibly Made in Western New York

Possibly Made by Heber Kimball in Mendon, Monroe County, New York

Stands 6" Tall and Measures 11 1/2" Across

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Another View of the Pot

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Another View of the Pot

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A View of One of the Handles

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A View of the Interior

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A View of the Three Different Colored Lines of Slip

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A View of the Base

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Three Early 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Jars

Attributed to Heber Kimball in Mendon, New York

Circa 1820s to Early 1830s

Jar in the Middle Retains a History of Mormon Family Ownership

Jar to the Far Left was Owned by One of Kimball's sons in the 1800s

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Photo Courtesy: Sam Herrup, Crocker Farm and Church History Museum

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