George Suttles Pottery
Jar

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Jar
Datec. 1882–1912
Made inLa Vernia, Texas, United States
MediumSlip-glazed stoneware
Dimensions9 3/4 × 7 in. diameter (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of William J. Hill
Object numberB.2012.194
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Isaac Suttles’s brother George joined him in Lavernia by 1877 and worked on his own at a nearby site after Isaac’s death.

This slip-glazed, cylindrical jar is impressed with the name of a grocer in New Braunfels, Theo Eggeling. Stoneware jugs and jars that advertised retail and other businesses were common in the later 19th and early 20th centuries.


Provenance[Jon St. Clair, Austin]; purchased by William J. Hill (1934–2018), Houston, 2006; given to MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on bottom, with graphite: WJH #5
Side of the jar is impressed: THEO. EGGELING

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

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