This is likely a late nineteenth century hand-thrown red earthenware vase that I have handled a few times that is currently for sale at Antiques Associates At West Townsend in Massachusetts. The vase is adorned with applied grapes, vines and leaves, whereas the leaves appear to have been further embellished with slip decoration. I suspect this is an American made object, although I do not know the manufacturer. But grapes were a type of design found on traditional cobalt decorated stoneware from American manufacturers during the second-half of the nineteenth century, as well as applied decorations found on both red earthenware and stoneware, such as this example.
Interestingly, Volume I of my most recent published book, titled, America's Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York, includes a section where the West Bloomfield, New York potter, Alvin Wilcox (1801-1862) used to write about grape farming in the 1850s for Moore's Rural New Yorker, as well as a census record that cites his primary occupation as a "grape farmer": https://historicbeverly.net/product/103125/.
This type of applied floral decoration was also popular with potters in the late 1800s in some areas of the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as possibly in Ohio, the Midwest, and other parts of the United States, including Hartford, Connecticut. Many of those objects were applied with hand-modeled flowers instead of grapes, and cold-painted rather than being glazed. In fact, among those businesses was the Goodwin Brothers Pottery in the Elmwood section of West Hartford, which is discussed in detail in my sixth book, titled, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-city-on-the-river-the-early-red-earthenware-of-the-hartford-connecticut-area/.
Additionally, I believe this vase was found about ten years ago in one of the fields at the antiques shows in Brimfield, Massachusetts; I know this does not give any context of ownership or a history, but at least it gives an idea of where this object was once found. Nonetheless, I have always felt this was an interesting and very well made piece of red earthenware.
Hand-Thrown Red Earthenware Vase with Applied Grapes, Vines and Leaves
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