A subject that will be included as part of the forthcoming 600-700 or so page book that I'm currently working on, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers and Peabody, Massachusetts is the variety of flowerpots made at the Moses Paige (1846/47-1941) Pottery in Peabody, Massachusetts. One double-handled form is somewhat well documented that is reproduced today by Guy Wolfe in Connecticut, which he calls a "Peabody Pot": https://www.guywolff.com/red-pots-collection.
Among the customers for the double-handled flowerpots made at the Paige Pottery in the early 1900s was Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) and her family in Boston. Gardner used some of the flowerpots at Fenway Court for trees and shrubs. I just wrote about one of these types of pots that I found with my niece Alexis last weekend in Peabody: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2025/05/a-very-large-circa-1876-1930-red.html.
However, a photograph of the interior of the Paige Pottery kiln owned by the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers, Massachusetts reveals that this company manufactured other types of flowerpots, some of which appear to have been molded: https://peabodylibrary.pastperfectonline.com/photo/32B5AFED-A496-4ED1-BEE3-108810621474.
Interesting, I recently spent a good amount of time going through early twentieth century black and white photographs of interiors of homes in the Salem and Peabody area, owned by Historic New England, where there are some flowerpots used in these homes that appear like the ones shown on the top shelf of the Paige Pottery kiln. All of these photos were taken before 1929, which is when the Paige Pottery was producing this type of flowerpot, although there were other manufacturers for these types of flowerpots, as well.
Note: For more information - see my second book, titled, The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-moses-b-paige-company-the-last-of-the-peabody-potteries/.
A Photo of the Interior of the Moses Paige Pottery Kiln in Peabody, Mass.
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