In 2017, my niece Alexis and I acquired a black-glazed red earthenware handled pot with an early provenance from the Salem, Massachusetts area. While likely a local piece, its handle construction also strongly resembles styles produced in Charlestown, Massachusetts before 1755.
Remarkably, a matching piece recently surfaced through Dr. Ed Robertson, a retired Massachusetts neurologist who assembled one of New England’s premier redware collections in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although his collection was dispersed years ago—Dr. Robertson recently shared photographs of his former collection with me. To my surprise, the photos revealed a matching black-glazed pot with a lid, crafted by the exact same manufacturer as the pitcher Alexis and I discovered.
These photographs will be included in Chapter 7, Volume I of my upcoming tenth book—a comprehensive, 1,900-page, two-volume study titled An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, Danvers, Peabody, Beverly and Salem, Massachusetts.
Note: For more information about Colonial red earthenware production in Charlestown - see my third book, The Dawn of Independence, the Death of an Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-dawn-of-independence-the-death-of-an-industry/.
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