Among the significant collections at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut are the Garvan and Montgomery collections. In 1930, Francis P. Garvan (1875-1937) donated his renowned collection of American decorative arts to Yale in honor of his wife, Mabel Brady Garvan (1886-1979); Charles F. Montgomery (1910-1978) was a leading authority on American decorative art and a professor of art history at Yale, whereas he and his wife's Americana collection was donated to Yale in the 1970s.
These collections include a great large eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware pitcher from the Garvin Collection; in fact, this is one of the best slip decorated pitchers I have ever seen from any American manufacturer. The museum describes the pitcher as being made about 1830 and standing eleven inches tall.
Additionally, the Montgomery Collection includes an eighteenth century stoneware jar completely surrounded by an incised leafy (some sort of vine) design, which is highlight with cobalt and a green glaze (is it actually green?); the clay color is also a pinkish color based on the photo uploaded to the Yale University Art Gallery's website (see photos below). According to the information on file with the museum, the Montgomerys purchased the jar from a dealer in Wallingford, Connecticut about 1940, who had previously found it in Cheshire, Connecticut, although the jar is thought to have been made in New York City, circa 1755-1800. Furthermore, Crocker Farm has what appears to be a related jar that will be available as part of the firm's upcoming auction next month in Sparks, Maryland.
Interestingly, another object owned as part of the Garvan Collection is a nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware jar likely made at the Nathaniel Rochester Pottery in West Bloomfield, New York, circa 1818-1831. The only other jar that I have seen like it is one that sold as part of the Skinner Collection on Cape Cod in November of 2023; that jar also retained a history of ownership in nearby Rochester, New York: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/01/a-very-good-slip-decorated-red.html.
A Great Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Pitcher and a Stoneware Jar
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