Nationality
American
Title of Work
Preview
Medium
Pottery
Identification #
1985.001.0140
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Displayed
Location
Hughes Fine Arts Center
Additional Information
Gray stoneware jar, salt glaze, #265 with 4 swooshes of blue decorations. Impressed 2 with 3 dots over it on shoulder. Nice tooling at neck. Some sagging in the fire. Brown slip inside 13" high. These 2 pots found in Blue field, WV. Had belonged to the Jones family in Ashland (near Richmond) VA. See: Rice and Stout, the Shanandoah Pottery. These are possibly by Samuel Bell. Stoneware jar 8" high. Dark gray with 3 swaths of orange running the full length.
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