A significant example of late eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip-decorated red earthenware from Bristol County, Massachusetts, sold today at Flying Pig Auctions in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. Offered as part of the Matt King Collection, the uncleaned jar remains a remarkable survivor; despite significant slip loss, its overall condition is fine.
The piece is directly related to a well-documented jar once sold by New York City dealers Garrison and Diana Stradling (see below). That companion piece was originally held by the Howard Gilman Foundation and displayed in their Manhattan office alongside decoys, early photography, and the rest of the corporate red earthenware collection before selling at Christie's New York in 2003 and 2004. Today, only a small group of these slip-decorated Bristol County jars are known to exist—most having been specially made for local Quaker weddings or members of the Bristol County Quaker community—making this newly surfaced example an incredibly rare find.
For more information - see my fifth published book, 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/.
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