Last week, I posted a story to this website, titled, Some Information About Forthcoming Two-Volume Tenth Book: Similar Decorated Red Earthenware from Beverly, Mass. and Philadelphia, where I discussed one of the styles of decoration manufactured at the Charles A. Lawrence (1829-1904) Pottery in Beverly, Massachusetts: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2025/09/some-information-about-forthcoming-two_26.html.
Nonetheless, a good example of nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware made at the C.A. Lawrence Pottery in Beverly sold yesterday at Pook & Pook Auctions in Downington, Pennsylvania. The object was described as a coffee pot, but I suppose it could have been used as a teapot, too, although it also retained its original slip decorated lid. To my knowledge, there are only two other related lids known to survive from the Beverly Pottery today, one of those being a small circa 1865-1875 slip decorated pitcher in the collection of Winterthur Museum in Delaware.
This particular form is interesting because of the China Trade that happened in Salem and Beverly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. Imported tea was included as part of this trade brought from the East Indies.
Furthermore, this coffee pot (or teapot) previously sold in 2014 at Conestoga Auctions in Pennsylvania for $1,200 plus the buyer's premium: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/26379505_19th-century-redware-pottery-coffee-pot-attributed-to-manheim-pa.
Prior to that, the lidded pot sold in a group lot at Pook & Pook in 2009 for $321.75 including the buyer's premium: https://live.pookandpook.com/online-auctions/pook/redware-coffee-pot-together-with-bowl-jug-5397381.
It is good to see the slip decorated red earthenware made in Beverly receiving the recognition today that it rightfully deserves; this coffee pot (or teapot) sold yesterday for $2,000 including the buyer's premium: https://live.pookandpook.com/online-auctions/pook/redware-coffeepot-8145850.
Note: For more information about the C.A. Lawrence Pottery in Beverly - see my first published book, titled, The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-beverly-pottery-the-wares-of-charles-a-lawrence/.
This coffee pot (or teapot) is published in The Beverly Pottery book, although it will also be included in one of the two sections about Charles A. Lawrence that are included in my forthcoming, two-volume, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts.
19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware from Beverly, Mass.
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