STAMPED AMERICAN POTTERY COMPANY ROCKINGHAM GLAZE POTTERY PITCHER, mottled brown glaze, featuring hunt scenes depicting hounds capturing a boar to one side and reverse seizing a stag, the shoulder and neck with relief grapevine design, and molded hound handle. Impressed "AMERICAN / POTTERY, Co. / JERSEY CITY, N.J." to underside. American Pottery Co., Jersey City, NJ. 1833-1850. 12 7/8" HOA.
Literature: Parallels Stradling -
"Fancy Rockingham" Pottery: The Modeller and Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century America, pp. 44, top and 45.
Provenance: Deaccessioned by the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA to benefit collections care, preservation and future acquisitions.
Condition
Mostly undamaged, except having very faint base hairline primarily visible to interior only.