A Very Good Late 18th or Early 19th Century Stoneware Jug Likely from Manhattan with an Incised Flower Highlighted by Cobalt

This late eighteenth or early nineteenth century stoneware jug adorned with a very well executed inscribed flower highlighted by cobalt is also 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. Since originally handling this object last fall, I always suspected that it was made by a member of the Crolius family in Manhattan, although variations of this type of design were also produced by the Remmey family, Thomas Commeraw and David Morgan in New York City, whereas the execution of the flower also reminded me of the design accuracy of some objects produced by Commeraw: https://www.aaawt.com/antique/stoneware-jug-probably-made-by-a-member-of-the-crolious-or-remmey-family/.

The Crolius family of potters produced stoneware in Manhattan in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that was typically light gray or tan, salt-glazed and often decorated with die-stamped and/or incised patterns highlighted with a cobalt blue glaze.

Among the earliest surviving example of stoneware made by the Crolius family (or any New York City stoneware potter) exhibiting a variation of this type of floral decoration is an eighteenth century stoneware jug displayed today in the Americana Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/4579.

According to the MET, "This jug was probably made by John Crolius (1733-1812), whose family worked in Manhattan in an area known as Pot Baker’s Hill, just north of what is now City Hall Park. He and his brother, William, were among the area’s first potters. Their father had emigrated from Germany and founded a pottery, which the family ran until the mid-nineteenth century. The jug is signed and dated, which is rare in eighteenth century American stoneware. The inscription around the body reads, "JOHN HAVINS.1775, July 18, N.YORK; I..C."

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Note: The MET also owns an heavily inscribed and stamped inkstand with cobalt that was made by William Crolius in 1773: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/1981.

Late 18th or Early 19th Century Stoneware Jug Likely from Manhattan

(Right) Late 18th or Early 19th Century Stoneware Jug Likely from New York

Likely Made in Manhattan, Otherwise Somewhere Along the Hudson River

Possibly Made by a Member of the Crolius Family in Manhattan

Otherwise Likely Another New York City Potter

Decorated with an Incised Flower Highlighted with Cobalt

Circa 1770-1810

Stands 10 1/4" Tall

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Additional Views of the Jug

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The List of Potters Documented Working in New York City in 1805

Longworth's American Almanack, New York Register, and City Directory, 1805

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18th Century Stoneware Jug Made in Manhattan

Adorned with Inscribed Script and a Floral Decoration Highlighted with Cobalt

Probably made by John Crolius (1733-1812) in 1775

Inscribed Around the Body  "JOHN HAVINS.1775, July 18, N.YORK; I..C"

Stands 10" Tall

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Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Additional View of the Jug

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Additional View of the Jug

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