A fine and rare one-gallon salt-glazed cobalt blue slip-decorated 'Bird with Dotted Breast and Floral Spray' stoneware jug, J & E Norton, Bennington, Vermont circa 1850-1859

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Description

height 11 1/2 in. 29.2cm

stamped J & E Norton Bennington VT.

Provenance

Collection of Betty and Joel Schatzberg, Riverside, Connecticut
Allan and Penny Katz, Woodbridge, Connecticut

Literature

Steven B. Leder & Fred Cesana, Birds of Bennington, pp. 131-132, fig. 44.

Catalogue Note

Leder and Cesana consider this jug to be 'unique, or nearly so', meaning only 1 - 3 are known with this particular pattern. They illustrate related Norton pottery with similarly-decorated birds on pp. 133-135, figs. 45A, 45B and 45C.