Shown below is a good large eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware jar that was found about ten years ago in an old estate in southern Connecticut. It was found alongside an early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware jar likely from West Hartford, Connecticut. These objects were then published in a chapter in my sixth book, titled, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-city-on-the-river-the-early-red-earthenware-of-the-hartford-connecticut-area/?add-to-cart=2685.
However, this jar will be published again in my forthcoming two-volume, 1,660-page, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, Danvers, Peabody, Beverly and Salem, Massachusetts.
There has been a lack of understanding through the years about the types of slip decorated pottery produced in the Danvers and Salem area, where it was previously published that little or no slip decorated red earthenware was produced in the area after 1710. Although, archaeology over the past few decades has proven otherwise. In fact, the swirled or circular slip design on this large jar is found in various archaeological contexts in the greater Salem area (Danvers, Marblehead, Ipswich, etc.), as well as an existing eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware pan owned by Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. This type of swirled design was also recovered from a late seventeenth and early eighteenth century context at the site of the James Kettle (1664/65-1712) Pottery in Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts.
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