Pottersville Stoneware Manufactory
Storage Jar

MakerEdgefield district, South Carolina, active 1835–1865
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Storage Jar
Datec. 1830–1860
Made inEdgefield District, South Carolina, United States
MediumAlkaline-glazed stoneware
Dimensions14 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. diameter (36.8 × 19.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.74.26
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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

In 1810, Abner Landrum established the first of a series of potteries in south central South Carolina along the border with Georgia. Over the next fifty years the number grew to at least ten potteries, the majority of them being large companies employing numerous workers, many of them enslaved. The vessels produced there are unique for their combination of English forms with alkaline glazes that are of Asian origin. It is believed that many of the potters were either English or Scots-Irish and that the glaze formulas were probably derived from published missionaries' letters.

Adapted from: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[Kinnaman and Ramaekers Antiques, Houston]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1974; given to MFAH, 1974.
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