As I have written on this website a number of times - my forthcoming two-volume, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, Danvers, Peabody, Beverly and Salem, Massachusetts, is about to be published as part of my ongoing book series through Historic Beverly in Massachusetts. In this new book, I explain how some production in England, France, Germany, Italy, the China Trade, Philadelphia and perhaps Manhattan, etc. influenced some production in the Danvers and Salem, Massachusetts area, circa 1639-1955, among other locations in eastern Massachusetts. This influence is seen in slip designs, forms and religious ideologies. In fact, I posted an example of one influence on this website earlier this week in a post, titled, A Style of Red Earthenware Bowl Often Recovered from Circa 1740-1820 Archaeological Contexts: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2026/03/a-style-of-red-earthenware-bowl-often.html.
Nonetheless, this is another example of that type of influence, although this nineteenth century red earthenware jar is from Western New York, and perhaps made at the circa 1818-1831 Nathaniel Rochester (1752-1831) Pottery in West Bloomfield, New York.
The jar is adorned with a vibrant colored dendritic or seaweed pattern, a style of decoration often found on English mochaware during the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, which is a type of factory-made slip decorated earthenware or dipped ware. In some areas, the slip trails into a looping, three-dimensional pattern often referred to as an earthworm or cable motif on mochaware.
Interestingly, this is also a subject that was discussed in Sumpter Priddy's 2004 book, American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840, where he notes that mochaware design influenced other decorative arts in America, such as some painted woodenware. My new book also shows an early nineteenth century painted wooden bowl and plate from New England that appears to imitate slip decorated red earthenware.
For reference, the reason this jar is included in my forthcoming book is due to mochaware being a recurring find in archaeological excavations in Salem, Massachusetts, etc., such as a series of privies discovered on the property of the Narbonne House, located near Salem's waterfront and Custom House. This type of pottery was typically colorful glazed, although utilitarian in household use. Mochaware has also been recovered from other archaeology sites in Salem, including the Derby Counting House, the Ephraim Skerry (1685-1741) House and the Captain Stephen Phillips House (1764-1838), etc.
For more information about this jar - see my latest published book, titled, America's Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York: https://historicbeverly.net/product/americas-great-awakening-and-migration-the-red-earthenware-of-western-new-york/.
Note: I also have a forthcoming research article coming out about marbled red earthenware made in the American northeast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, where I show this type of glaze is also found in seventeenth century American archaeological contexts on imported Italian red earthenware. It is also found in eighteenth century American archaeological contexts on imported English earthenware.
Another Preview of Forthcoming Tenth Book!
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