Rhonesboro Pottery Company
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MakerAttributed to Rhonesboro Pottery Company "Byrd Period" (American, c. 1920–1935)American, c. 1920–1935

CultureAmerican

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Datec. 1920–1935

Made inTexas, United States

MediumSalt-glazed stoneware

Dimensions6 × 5 in. diameter (15.2 × 12.7 cm)

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

Object numberB.2012.175.A,.B

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Texas Room

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Bayou Bend

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CERAMICS

DescriptionAbraham S. Byrd was born in 1872 in Sulphur Bluff, Hopkins County, Texas. His 1899 U. S. Army discharge papers recorded his occupation as “potter.” In 1915, Byrd purchased the Rhonesboro Pottery Company from two potters, possibly John Cranston and Mark Thaddeus Donaldson. Byrd may have learned the trade at the Randolph Company, the pottery established by Matthew Duncan in Bastrop County, Texas, while his family lived in the area in about 1880.
Provenance[Jon St. Clair, Austin]; purchased by William J. Hill (1934–2018), Houston, 2002; given to MFAH, 2012.
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