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June 27, 2025: Premier Americana: Day Two

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  • Stoneware/Redware
Lot 1104

JOHN SWANN ATTRIBUTED, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA STONEWARE JAR

Estimate: $80 - $120
Starting Bid
$40

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JOHN SWANN ATTRIBUTED, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA STONEWARE JAR, salt-glazed with drippy upper iron-oxide wash, "2" gallon capacity mark, ovoid form with flaring flat-top rim, double-incised shoulder rings, and applied arched tab handles. Attributed to John Blake Swann (1789-aft. 1831), "Stone-Ware Manufactory" / Wilkes Street Pottery, Alexandria, VA. 1810-1819. 12 1/4" H, 6" D rim. 
Literature: Parallels Wilder - Alexandria, Virginia Pottery, 1792-1876, p. 32, fig. JSat001. Parallels Hunter (ed.) - Ceramics in America 2012, "'Stone-ware of excellent quality, Alexandria manufacture', Part I:The Pottery of John Swann" by Barbara Magid, p. 115, fig. 2.
Catalogue Note: John Blake Swann was born in St. Mary's County, MD in 1789. After the loss of both his parents, Swann was apprenticed to potter Lewis W. Plum when he was 14-years-old. Following the completion of his apprenticeship, Swann founded the Wilkes Street pottery in Alexandria in 1811. The first years of the pottery were a success, however by 1817, America's economy began to wane and by 1819, the young country was in a full recession. Swann's business began to suffer and was in desperate need of a boost. In an ad from August 1819, he states that he had "been enabled lately to make a great improvement in his ware..." It is unknown what exactly he meant by this, but Wilder (Alexandria, Virginia Pottery, 1792-1876) theorizes that he may have started decorating his wares with cobalt at this time. It was also around this year that Swann began marking his pieces. Unfortunately, Swann's attempts to increase sales and dig himself out of debt were unsuccessful, he eventually resorted to selling the pottery to merchant Hugh Smith in 1825. Swann continued to work at the pottery through 1830 under Smith's management but by 1831, it is believed he moved West in search of greater opportunities.

Condition

Having a very shallow rim chip, each handle having some chips including one more moderate, a minor faint T-shaped hairline to medial body, and a minor hairline crack extending from base and partially up side.

Provenance

From the estate collection of Leland Nettles, Syria, VA.

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