PARR FAMILY ATTRIBUTED, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DECORATED STONEWARE LARGE JAR, salt-glazed, "6" gallon capacity mark, semi-ovoid form with beaded collar below the squared rim, and applied medial-groove arched handles. Brushed cobalt upright leafy tulip decoration to each side, additional cobalt at handle terminals. David Parr Jr. (1819-1882), working as Keesee & Parr (active 1857-1862), or as D. Parr & Sons Co./the Richmond Pottery Co. (active 1862-1887), Richmond, VA. 1857-1887. 18 1/4" H, 10" D rim.
Literature: Capacity mark as Rice,
James River Stoneware & the S. S. Perry Connection, p. 300, second row, right. For the latest research on Parr in Richmond see Hunter (ed.),
Ceramics in America 2013, pp. 210-213 - "The Remarkable 19th-Century Stoneware of Virginia's Lower James River Valley", by Kurt Russ, Rob Hunter, Oliver Mueller-Heubach, and Marshall Goodman.
Provenance: From a Virginia private collection.
Condition
Several areas of moderate restoration.