Manufacturer

New York Stoneware Co.

Material

stoneware

Dimensions

13" x 13 5/8" (33.0 cm. x 34.6 cm.)

Creation Date

1861 – 1891

Description

Large crock with molded handles on each side. Blue underglaze decoration of eagle with banner. Stamped above eagle with maker's name and symbol. Stoneware, salt-glazed, gray with blue and Albany slip interior.

Moralizing stoneware decorators often combined a sort of "kitchen philosophy" with a record of current affairs. The American eagle and pendant banner continued to be popular throughout the nineteenth century. A more common eagle and banner inscription used by the New York Stoneware Company was "Union Forever."

Marks/Inscription

Impressed "NEW YORK/STONEWARE CO./FORT EDWARD, N.Y./6". Inscription in banner: "Today / We Live / Tomorrow / We May / be ded'

Provenance

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Museum Purchase. Maze Pottinger Antiques, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Kitchen Artifact ID

Acc. No. 1975.900.3