STRASBURG, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA POLYCHROME-DECORATED EARTHENWARE / REDWARE WALL POCKET, bright lead-, copper-, and manganese-glazed over a slip wash, conical demilune form with applied arch and scroll hanger/handle, lightly crimped rim, applied upright bird flanked by two flowers and two leaves on front, with incised feathers, veins, and petals. Probably the pottery of Jacob Eberly (1830-1908) and Daniel Letcher Eberly (1859-1919). 1886-1903. 6 1/2" H, 4" x 3 1/4" rim, 2 5/8" D base.
Published: Rebecca Christian, "A bit of New England in Old Virginia", Country Home, February 1986, p. 56.
Literature: Parallels Comstock - Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region, p. 267, fig. 5.190; Rice and Stoudt - The Shenandoah Pottery, p. 68, pl. VI, #1641.

Excellent undamaged condition with no restoration or repairs, having a minute glaze flake to bird's lower wing and some roughness to rim and foot, as made.