It may not be the most recognized type of late nineteenth century red earthenware or terracotta made in America, although a painted plate sold yesterday at Dennis Auction Service in Stewartsville, New Jersey, which was marked on the back "GALLOWAY & GRAFF CO. PHILADELPHIA." The plate sold with a second painted plate, however, it was probably from another company, seeing that it was unmarked and the back was manufactured in a different style.
Interestingly, some of these plates (I don't want to say all of them because I don't know for sure) were cold painted after they had been fired in the kiln at the factory, some of which I suspect were created by women artists in the 1870s and 1880s. This is also a type of production that I suspect was inspired after similar objects made in Europe in the 1800s. Nonetheless, these plates sold for $70 plus the buyer's premium.
For more information - see a feature story that I wrote for the February 23, 2024 issue of Antiques & Auction News, titled, A Study Of 19th-Century Painted Terracotta Wall Plates Marked "Coulter & Long, Philadelphia": http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/02/new-published-feature-story-in-antiques.html.
Two Painted 19th Century Red Earthenware or Terracotta Plates
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