This was a fun thrift store find yesterday! This a miniature late nineteenth or early twentieth century wheel-thrown brown glazed stoneware chamber pot with a really nice rolled rim. It was found just to the north of Charlestown, Massachusetts and Boston; I suspect it retains some type of history of local ownership, and probably made for a novelty purpose. It was also possibly made during the circa 1880s-1890s period.
Interestingly, I have been stopping into this thrift store for almost two years now; I sometimes stop at it when I am driving past it on my way to the Boston area. But I do have a reason as to why I stop at this particular thrift shop; the cities that surround this store were really built up during the circa 1870-1940 period. I suspect there is still a lot of material in these homes from those early periods of ownership. There was also a lot of production in the Boston area during this period, including the Arts & Crafts Period, Chelsea Keramic, Low Art Tile, Grueby Pottery, New England Pottery Company, A.H. Hews Pottery, Charlestown stoneware, Peabody Pottery and Beverly Pottery, etc. Some of these companies I have also written feature stories about for various publications and they have also been included as part of some of my books.
Nevertheless, the circa 1876-1940s Moses Paige (1846/47-1941) Pottery in Peabody, Massachusetts printed some company catalogs in the 1890s, two of which are owned today by the Peabody Historical Society. Included in the catalogs are what are described as miniature cane colored ware and Rockingham ware stoneware chamber pots, some of which were miniature "Toy Chambers" that the company sold for a $1.00 per dozen. These were imported objects possibly brought in from Ohio stoneware manufacturers, including the C.C. Thompson Pottery Company in East Liverpool, Ohio. Perhaps this is an example of that line of production, but I also suspect that these types of objects were imported and produced elsewhere in the Boston area during the same period: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-moses-b-paige-company-the-last-of-the-peabody-potteries/.
One of those companies was the A.H. Hews Pottery in North Cambridge, Massachusetts (see below), which offered miniature boxed painted terracotta chamber pots given to customers who were not satisfied with their purchase and returned objects to the company: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2023/03/new-published-story-in-antiques-and.html.
Note: Here are two links to miniature stoneware chamber pots that were made at the Anna Pottery in Anna, Illinois in the late 1800s, both of which sold through Crocker Farm in Maryland.
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