This was a find yesterday at the antique shows in Brimfield, Massachusetts! This is a small late eighteenth or early nineteenth century red earthenware jar that I don't believe ever had a lid, seeing there is not really a place for a lid to have ever rested on the interior of the rim. I was also told that it was recently found in an estate in Bangor, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, although I do not believe that it is where it originated.
In fact, I firmly believe this jar is from the South Danvers (Peabody) and Salem, Massachusetts area, and I suspect it also dates from the circa 1770-1810 period, based on archaeological evidence that I’ve studied in Salem. Although, this is the only jar that I’ve seen like this, but it closely matches a group of known jugs and pitchers, all dating from that same period, some of which were recovered from a privy at the site of the Narbonne House in Salem.
Interestingly, though, the tooled lines on the rim and the overall shape of this jar is found on a type of jar made a little later in the Bristol County, Massachusetts area (Southeastern Mass., etc), circa 1780-1830. I suspect there is a relationship since both locations were intertwined through the Quaker religion, whereas a demonstration of these types of jars will be included in my forthcoming 800-900 page tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts (see below). This relationship is shown in Chapter 2, which is about Daniel Purinton (1710-1764) and his family's impact with red earthenware production in the South Danvers (Peabody) and Salem area, as well as in Bristol County.
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2 comments:
Not Bristol county
Thanks! Yeah that’s why I said area. Southeastern, Mass., etc.
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