June 27, 2025: Premier Americana: Day Two
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IMPORTANT STAMPED "E. SUTER. / HARRISONBURG / ROCKINGHAM CO. VA", SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA EARTHENWARE / REDWARE MOLDED URN, unglazed, in two parts, the thistle-form urn featuring spaced columns above a gadrooned base, the stand featuring elliptical drapes and diamonds above a flared gadrooned standard with tooled edge. Stamp to the front of the stand. Together with its original 12" D circular marble plinth and a copy of Royer's book Thrown, Fired and Glazed: The Redware Tradition From Pennsylvania and Beyond. Three pieces total. Emanuel Suter's (1833-1902) New Erection Pottery west of Harrisonburg, VA. 1870-1890. 20" HOA, 12 1/2" D rim, 9 7/8" D base.
Published: Evans/Suter - A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware, p. 19, pl. 33 and p. 85, fig. 155; Comstock - The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region, p. 339, fig. 6.62; Kaufman - Heatwole and Suter Pottery, p. 42, fig. 72; Royer - Thrown, Fired and Glazed: The Redware Tradition From Pennsylvania and Beyond, p. 23, fig. top.
Catalogue Note: Originally, this urn was one of a pair specially made to flank the front walkway of the Suter homeplace, located west of Harrisonburg, adjacent to Suter's New Erection pottery. The other urn top was unfortunately broken and discarded, making this a unique complete example. This urn was included in three different pottery exhibitions between 1978 and 2020, indicating its important nature.
The urn is from a relatively limited number of molded pieces produced at the Suter pottery and represents one of the most iconic examples of those pieces. It demonstrates Suter's awareness of the new trend of molded, as opposed to traditional thrown wares, emerging in the 1870s and his desire to offer objects in the latest styles. His adoption of steam and other modern manufacturing techniques after his stint at the Cowden and Wilcox pottery in Harrisburg, PA, at the end of the Civil War, attests to his emergence as a uniquely progressive Mennonite potter in the Shenandoah Valley during the period from 1865 to 1897.
Good as-found condition, the urn with moderate chipping and shallow losses to the rim, and a 2" firing separation off the rim, as made; the stand with some surface spalls and scattered light exfoliation.
From the estate collection of Stanley Heatwole Suter, Harrisonburg, VA.
Ex-collection of Eugene Souder, Sr.
Ex-collection of Mary E. Suter, daughter of Emanuel Suter, who occupied the Suter homeplace her entire life.
Exhibited: Thrown, Fired and Glazed: The Redware Tradition From Pennsylvania and Beyond, Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, March 2019 - December 2020 (exhibit label included); "A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware," The Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, September 7 - December 30, 2004, No. 155 (exhibit label included); and Heatwole and Suter Pottery, Eastern Mennonite College, February 5 - March 5, 1978, No. 72.
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