A Good 19th Century Lidded Red Earthenware Jar Most Likely from the Industry in North Yarmouth, Maine

As I have recently posted on this website: "For those of you who enjoyed my seventh book, titled, From One Town Came Many: The Red Earthenware Industry of Ancient North Yarmouth, Maine, there will be two sections about Maine red earthenware in Volume II of my forthcoming 1,100-1,300 page, two-volume, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts. These sections explain how production from Essex County, Massachusetts and the Boston area influenced some production in New Hampshire and Vermont in northern New England, although the main focus will be some of the potters in Maine. 

The reason for this is because the names Alld, Bickford, Corliss, Dodge, Norcross, Philbrick, Porter and Safford, as well as the industry in North Yarmouth can all be traced back to the Essex County and Boston area in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. In most cases, these families relocated to New Hampshire and Maine in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, otherwise they were somehow influenced by Massachusetts families. For instance, one family in particular, the Porters of Wiscasset, Maine came from a family of potters in Danvers."

This is a good nineteenth century red earthenware jar with what appears to be its original lid that will be included in the book, which was most likely made at the industry in North Yarmouth. I think this type of jar may be the form that most defines production in this area, based on the information and archaeology that is known about production in North Yarmouth today, circa 1791-1890. 

The families associated with this area's red earthenware production, include Brooks, Cleaves, Corliss, Foster and Thomas, all of which were multi-generational family operations. John Thomas (1754-1843), a native of Gloucester, Massachusettts, who likely trained at the circa 1764-1799 Daniel Bayley (1722-1792) Pottery Company in Newburyport, Massachusetts, established the first business in North Yarmouth in 1791.

Note: Be on the looked for the new book, although in the meantime - see a feature story I wrote for the November 2019 issue of  Maine Antique  Digest, titled, The North Yarmouth, Maine Pottery Industry, 1791-1890: https://www.scribd.com/document/432700038/North-Yarmouth-Pottery-Published-in-November-2019-Issue-of-Maine-Antique-Digest.

Also see my seventh book, titled, From One Town Came Many: The Red Earthenware Industry of Ancient North Yarmouth, Maine: https://historicbeverly.net/product/from-one-town-came-many-the-red-earthenware-industry-of-ancient-north-yarmouth-maine/.

Red Earthenware Jar Most Likely from the Industry in North Yarmouth, ME

19th Century Red Earthenware Jar Most Likely from North Yarmouth, Maine

The Lid is Likely Original

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