Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
An Incised and Cobalt-Blue Decorated Five-Gallon Crock, attributed to W.H. Farrar, Geddes, New York, circa 1845
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January 25, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
stoneware
height 15 in.
incised with birds, flowers and leaves on one side; the reverse side incised with tulips and leaves.
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New York Estate;
Vicki & Bruce Waasdorp, Clarence, New York, American Pottery Auction, September 15, 2007;
David Wheatcroft, Deerfield, Massachusetts sold at the ADA Show, 2011.
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 87-8, fig. 148a-d.
The Warwicks have surmised that this crock was possibly by a stoneware potter who started working in Old Bridge, New Jersey and then moved to W.H. Farrar & Co. in Geddes, New York. Geddes is located near the Erie Canal in proximity to Syracuse. They found a jar in a private New Jersey collection with nearly identical designs, but executed with less skill, labeled GEN. J. MORGAN/ SOUTHAMBOY that was made circa 1820 before General James Morgan. Nevertheless, the Warwicks subsequently found a jug with the exact tulip design labeled by W.H. Farrar, Geddes, New York and made after 1841 when the pottery began. This jug in the Onondaga County Historical Society, New York, and illustrated in Donald Blake Webster's Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America, pp. 6-8. Thus, the Warwicks have theorized that this crock was made by the same potter who made the aforementioned Morgan jar twenty years or so later, and that the potter possibly moved from New Jersey to Farrar's Pottery in Geddes, New York to follow the prosperity that came to Central New York with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
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