Back in August of 2017, I posted an article to this website about some red earthenware that sold at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which had come from an old antique dealer's inventory in Boston and had been in storage since the 1940s or 1950s. Those objects included a red earthenware jug that retained an old note, reading, "Charlestown Pottery, 1780-1810": http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2017/08/an-intriguing-red-earthenware-jug-that.html.
This jug was then illustrated with the tag in my fifth book, titled, The Dawn of Independence, the Death of an Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-dawn-of-independence-the-death-of-an-industry/.
Interestingly, another object that sold in that sale was a colorfully glazed late eighteenth or early nineteenth century red earthenware jug from Bristol County, Massachusetts that was missing its handle. This jug later sold at Crocker Farm in Maryland in 2018, where it had a modern tin make-do handle added to it; it was also published as it appeared without the handle in my fifth book, titled, A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-celebrated-industry-the-historic-wares-of-southeastern-massachusetts-bristol-county-and-cape-cod/.
Nonetheless, a similar glazed red earthenware jug (slightly less vibrant with less green) with a chip on the rim from Bristol County sold yesterday in a group lot at Amelia Jeffers in Columbus, Ohio. It came from the lifelong collection of the late Ginny and Ken Kruizenga of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The lot sold for $425 plus the buyer's premium: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/213798246_four-american-redware-items-columbus-oh.
Late 18th or Early 19th C. Red Earthenware Jugs from Bristol County, Mass.
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