Hunt Pottery First Site
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MakerAttributed to Hunt Pottery First SiteAmerican, active c. 1889–1900

CultureAmerican

Titles

Datec. 1889–1900

Made inTexas, United States

MediumSlip-glazed stoneware

Dimensions8 5/16 × 8 1/8 × 8 1/2 in. (21.1 × 20.6 × 21.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of William J. Hill

Object numberB.2012.149

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Bayou Bend

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CERAMICS

DescriptionJohn Fleming Hunt operated the Rusk County, Texas, site from approximately 1889 to 1900. Hunt may have learned the trade from Alexander “Ellick” Brown, who was formerly enslaved at the Taylor Brown pottery.
Provenance[Jon St. Clair, Austin]; purchased by William J. Hill (1934–2018), Houston, 2004; given to MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Unmarked, but there are two lines incised on the upper portion of the body.

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