Friday, September 5, 2025

In Search of Any Other Related Jars: A Type of Red Earthenware Jar Most Likely from the Danvers and Salem, Massachusetts Area

Included as part of my forthcoming 900-1,000 page, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts, is a chapter about a type of red earthenware jar that I firmly believe was made in the Danvers and Salem, Massachusetts area, circa late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. 

To date, I have been able to identify three of these types of jars, one of which was sold earlier this year by John McInnis in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and retains a history of ownership in the Boston area. 

However, I am in search of any other related jars...so if anyone reading this post owns one of these types of jars and would like to have it published in the forthcoming book, please contact me as soon as possible. Two of the jars shown below are privately owned today, while the third is in the collection of Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

A Type of Jar Most Likely from the Danvers and Salem, Mass. Area

Three Related Late 18th or Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Jars
Most Likely Made in the Danvers and Salem, Massachusetts Area
Each Jar Measures About 9 or so Inches Tall
See Article for More Information
Photo Courtesy: Private Collections and Historic Deerfield

Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...

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