A Late 18th Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher from Bristol County, Mass. Recently Found in New Bedford, Mass.

In March of 2018, a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century red earthenware jug from Bristol County, Massachusetts sold at Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland to a private collector in Ohio for a strong price, where that collector told me after the sale: "...the reason I paid that amount of money for the jug is because through the span of my career I have never seen a Bristol County jug only decorated with manganese around the rim and on top of the handle." That jug sold for $4,720 including the buyer's premium: https://www.crockerfarm.com/stoneware-auction/2018-03-24/lot-358/Outstanding-Small-Sized-New-England-Redware-Jug/.

Late 18th or Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Jug from Bristol County, Mass.

Stands 6" Tall

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Photo Courtesy: Crocker Farm

However, it was the second time that I had seen this type of glaze on a jug from Bristol County with the other example selling as part of the Protruski Trust Collection in New Hampshire in 2009 at The Cobbs in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This jug sold strong, as well, although the price was less partly because it had sustained some damage just below the rim: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2015/07/the-protruski-trust-collection-of-red.html.

Late 18th or Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Jug from Bristol County, Mass.

Stands 6 1/2" Tall

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Photo Courtesy: The Cobbs

Interestingly, I just acquired a Bristol County red earthenware pitcher with a similar style of decoration; nonetheless, this is a rare group of late eighteenth and/or early nineteenth century red earthenware pitchers from Bristol County. 

I acquired the first one (far right) about ten to fifteen years ago from Lew Scranton in Killingworth, Connecticut, the second I picked up with my niece Alexis in 2020, while visiting a private collection in Westchester, New York on our way to New York City, and the third example I just acquired this week after it was recently found in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The new one is the smallest of the group measuring about 6 1/2 inches tall and decorated with groups of faint wavy and straight incised lines.

For more information - see 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/

Group of Late 18th and/or Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Pitchers

All from Bristol County, Mass.

Smallest Measures About 6 1/2" Tall

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Late 18th or Early 19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher

Made in Bristol County, Mass.

Recently Found in New Bedford, Mass.

Stands About 6 1/2" Tall

It is Around the Same Height as the Jugs Shown Above

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Additional Views of the Pitcher

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