A Crazy Week for American Red Earthenware Discoveries!

It has been a wild week for unexpected discoveries of American red earthenware. First, a lamp made from a fantastic mid-nineteenth century marked Christopher Alexander Haun (1821-1861) jar from Greene County, Tennessee popped up in a random North Carolina antiques shop. The lamp parts have since been removed and the jar survives in very good condition. Then, a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century slip-decorated red earthenware flask made by Nathaniel Seymour (1763-1849) of West Hartford, Connecticut, surfaced in a local Connecticut auction group lot. It just goes to show—the great stuff is still out there!

For more information about Seymour - see my sixth book, 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/.

Mid-19th Century Christopher Alexander Haun Red Earthenware Jar

The Jar is Impressed "C.A. Haun"

Made in Greene County, Tennessee

Discovered this Week in a Shop in North Carolina

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Photo Courtesy: Private Collector

Late 18th or Early 19th Century Slip Decorated Red Earthenware Flask

Made by Nathaniel Seymour of West Hartford, CT

Discovered this Week in a Group Lot at a Connecticut Auction

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Photo Courtesy: Private Collector

Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...