Rhonesboro Pottery Company
Jar

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Jar
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
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
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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