STEPHEN B. SWEENEY, HENRICO CO., VIRGINIA DECORATED STONEWARE JAR, salt-glazed, approximately three-gallon capacity, tapering ovoid form with squared rim, triple-incised shoulder rings, and applied arched handles. Brushed cobalt quadruple boll cotton plant design to each side. Stephen B. Sweeney (1799-1862), Bailey's Creek, Henrico Co., VA. 1838-1863. 13 1/4" H, 6 3/4" D rim.
Literature: Decoration parallels Hunter (ed.) - Ceramics in America 2013, p. 249, fig. 75, "The Remarkable 19th-Century Stoneware of Virginia's Lower James River Valley" by Kurt C. Russ, Robert Hunter, Oliver Mueller-Heubach, and Marshall Goodman.

Having some areas of professional restoration including most of rim, both handles reconstructed, and a curved crack that extends from rim to below one handle and up to shoulder.