Isaac Suttles Pottery
Two-Gallon Jar

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Two-Gallon Jar
Datec. 1873–1882
Made inLa Vernia (now LaVernia), Texas, United States
MediumSlip-glazed stoneware
Dimensions10 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. diameter (27.6 × 21 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of William J. Hill
Object numberB.2012.78
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Isaac Suttles was born in Ohio and probably was employed by John M. Wilson at the Guadalupe Pottery sometime after the Civil War. Census records from 1870 suggest that Suttles worked with and resided with the family of Marion J. Durham. Durham had joined Wilson as a partner in the Guadalupe Pottery after the war and purchased Wilson’s remaining interest in 1869, establishing what became known as the Durham-Chandler-Wilson pottery. By 1873, Suttles had established his own pottery in La Vernia, Texas. Suttles is thought to have introduced the technique of salt glazing to the Guadalupe Pottery, to the Durham-Chandler-Wilson pottery, and in turn to H. Wilson & Company.

This jar features an incised line around its shoulder, along with an impressed two-gallon capacity mark next to Suttles’ distinctive maker’s mark.


Provenance[Jon St. Clair, Austin]; purchased by William J. Hill (1934–2018), Houston, date unknown; given to MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on bottom, with graphite: WJH / 9
Incised on the shoulder: 2
Impressed on the shoulder: I. SUTTLES, LAVERNIA, ~TEX.

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