This type of nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware plate is one of my favorite non-script decorated plates or dishes known from the American Northeast today. There are about four or five of these types of plates known, which are thought to have been made in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the 1800s, whereas one of best examples was found in Bucks County, Pennsylvania many years ago; this example may be the one that is currently privately owned in a prominent Pennsylvania collection that was the subject of a feature story written by Johanna McBrien, titled, Kindred Spirits; it is possible that a second example also came out of the Bucks County area.
Furthermore, one of the plates that has sold in the twenty-first century was owned for many years by Long Island, New York collector Michael Schnall before it sold as part of his major Americana collection at Northeast Auctions in Manchester, New Hampshire on August 2, 2008. Although, it was previously owned as part of the Sekall Collection in Bucks County.
In fact, the red earthenware part of the Schnall collection is one of the most significant single owner collections to come to auction over the last fifty years, where some of those objects have recently resold at Crocker Farm in Maryland for very strong prices. Here are a few examples --
1) Philadelphia Redware Plate, Summer 2023: https://www.crockerfarm.com/stoneware-auction/2023-08-04/lot-168/Fine-Philadelphia-Redware-Plate-18th-century/
2) Marbled Redware Jar, Spring 2023: https://www.crockerfarm.com/stoneware-auction/2023-03-31/lot-255/Exceptional-New-England-Redware-Jar-w-Profuse-Slip-Decoration-probably-Norwalk-CT/
Nonetheless, the plate owned by Schnall sold again in January of 2022 as part of Ohio antiques dealer David Good’s collection at New Haven Auctions in Connecticut, where it was purchased by the current owner.
Additionally, there are a few other related plates known that have recently sold at auction; a second example was owned for many years by Robesonia, Pennsylvania potter Lester Breininger, which sold as lot number 733 at Pook & Pook in Pennsylvania on November 11, 2011, and previously came out of an auction near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; a third example just sold as lot number 203 in Crocker Farm's summer 2024 sale, however this may be the second example that was found years ago in Bucks County.
Note: Each of these plates are drape-molded and decorated with three colors of slip and a coggle wheel; I can not recall having seen any other forms decorated with this exact technique outside of this style of circular plate. Are there any other circular examples known today besides the four or five that I referenced?
Update: A second post provides more information about this type of production: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/09/more-information-19th-century-coggle.html.
19th Century Coggle and Three Color Slip Decorated Plates
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