A notable eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century slip-decorated red earthenware bowl recently surfaced in the Matt King Collection, selling tonight during the ongoing auction at Flying Pig Auctions in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
Attributed to the Danvers and Salem, Massachusetts region, the bowl features swirled slip motifs that mirror local archaeological recoveries from Danvers, Ipswich, Marblehead, and Salem, as well as early European designs. Personally, I suspect it may have been made by the Symonds family of Salem (1750–1830)—a lineage best known today for their seventeenth-century furniture shop. While further research is needed to prove they manufactured this exact design, there is no question that this style was produced locally.
Strikingly, the pattern also echoes the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century cobalt decorations used on stoneware in parts of New Jersey, New York City, the Hudson River Valley, and southern Connecticut. This exceptional bowl will be included alongside local archaeology in my forthcoming tenth book, a two-volume, 1,900-page work: An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, Danvers, Peabody, Beverly, and Salem, Massachusetts.
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