This is another one of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century stoneware objects that I really like from the good stoneware collection that I have been writing about over the past few months currently offered by Antiques Associates At West Townsend in Massachusetts. Aesthetically, this jug really spoke to me with how the person who decorated it basically utilized the entire front of the jug with the incised flower decoration, which was further embellished and highlighted with cobalt. The thought it that this jug was made in Manhattan, otherwise a potter working near the Hudson River in New York: https://www.aaawt.com/antique/stoneware-jug-probably-manhattan-or-hrv-new-york-incised-flower/.
Interestingly, one of the most prominent museum collections of American stoneware is the Remensnyder Collection at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. John Paul Remensnyder (1898-1981) was an important twentieth-century New York collector, who pursued the best in American stoneware during the same period when some of the early-to-mid-twentieth century books and magazine articles were published on domestic utilitarian pottery.
According to his obituary published in the
New York Times in 1981, "Mr. Remensnyder was born in the Bronx, and he went to work at Heyden Chemical in 1920. He was named a director and vice president in 1944, president in 1950 and chairman of the board in 1952. But his avocation of collecting antique stoneware and metalware also brought him fame. His acquisitions have been shown and then donated to museums throughout the northeast.
Among the principal showings was his 150-piece stoneware collection at the Smithsonian Institution in 1978 and 1979, representing the product of a hobby that began more than a half century ago."
Nevertheless, I have seen the Remensnyder Collection in-person, and this jug rivals most of the flower decorated stoneware jugs and jars from New York in this collection, although there is nothing exactly like this object at the Smithsonian.
And while I am not suggesting any direct connection, the incised decorative technique used for the flower on this jug also reminds me of the remains of a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century stoneware jug that was recovered by archaeologists along Beekman Street in the Seaport in Manhattan in 2006, presumably made by a New York City potter. This jug is also decorated with an incised flower highlighted by cobalt (see below).
A Late 18th or Early 19th Century Stoneware Jug Likely from New York City
(Left) Late 18th or Early 19th Century Stoneware Jug Likely from New York
Likely Made in Manhattan, Otherwise Somewhere Along the Hudson River
Decorated with an Incised Flower Highlighted with Cobalt
Circa 1770-1810
Stands 12 1/4" Tall
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Photo Courtesy: A.A.A.W.T.
Additional Views of the Jug
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Late 18th or Early 19th Century Stoneware Jug Remains Recovered in Manhattan
Decorated with an Incised Flower Highlighted with Cobalt
Recovered Along Beekman Street in the Seaport in Manhattan in 2006
Presumably Made by a New York City Pottery
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Photo Courtesy: Chrysalis Archaeology
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