Manufacturer

Jacob Caire

Material

stoneware

Dimensions

7-1/2 x 6-1/2 (dia)

Creation Date

1840 – 1860

Description

Small lidded preserve jar with matching knobbed lid; incised (or stamped?) bird on branch. Salt glaze stoneware.
George Lukacs, author of Poughkeepsie Potters and The Plague, inspected this jar on 12/21/2006 and believes it to be unlabeled Poughkeepsie Pottery of Jacob Caire. He states the pieces is not labeled, perhaps it would have been too obtrusive to put his name on it.

Provenance

Purchase, Alan Dewey, 11/6/71