As I noted in a post from earlier this week, titled, Two 18th or Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Dishes Adorned with Slip Decorated Triangles: "There are some accurately identified types of slip decorated dishes that were produced in southeastern Massachusetts (likely Bristol County), as a well as possibly some examples produced in Essex County, Massachusetts in the eighteenth and/or early nineteenth century; most of these objects have previously been published in various feature stories and books that I have written, as well as Massachusetts author Lura Woodside Watkins' (1897-1982) book, Early New England Potters and Their Wares. However, I also want to note that there was a variety of slip decorated red earthenware made in Massachusetts before the American Revolution, although there is not a lot of evidence of this type of production happening in the coastal part of the state after 1775."
This is also a subject that deserves more of a study, seeing that slip decorated red earthenware was produced during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century period in places like Bristol County, Massachusetts and Essex County, Massachusetts. But the extent of it is not entirely known.
For instance, two days ago, I posted two eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware dishes decorated with a triangle in the center. These objects may be related to three large red earthenware jars made at the Purinton Pottery for members of the Purinton family in Bristol County, one of which is also decorated with triangles, while the other two are displayed today in the Americana Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, as part of the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection.
Interestingly, though, both of these dishes are hand-thrown, whereas I have shown a third example today, which I believe is related to the dishes decorated with triangles. This third dish is also hand-thrown and exhibits all of the same characteristics in form as the other dishes.
For more information - see my fifth published book, titled, A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-celebrated-industry-the-historic-wares-of-southeastern-massachusetts-bristol-county-and-cape-cod/.
Note: I have also posted additional pictures showing other examples of slip decorated red earthenware, two of which (a rundlet and jar) were made in Bristol County; a third is a double-handled jar or vase, which I believe was also made in coastal Massachusetts, perhaps in the southeastern part of the state in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
18th or Early 19th C. Hand-Thrown Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Dish
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