Item 11191
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Rare 1 Gallon Stoneware Jar whose form and decoration make it easy to attribute to John Poole Schermerhorn. 
 
Schermerhorn had a pottery on Rocketts Landing of the James River in Henrico County, Virginia from around 1817 to 1837.  He died in 1850.  See Eric C. Jenkins, Ceramics in Virginia, pp. 116-171.  
 
Provenance:  This pitcher comes most recently from the fine collection of William H. Chapman III of Virginia.
 
This beauty features a Small 1Gallon Size, Tooled Rim and Shoulder, Bulbous Base, Applied Handles, and an Elaborated Brushed Cobalt Tulip Decoration on Each Side.  On the front the stemmed tulip with 5 blossoms emerges from a base with 10 long leaves.  On the back the tulip arises from 8 shorts leaves.  Additional cobalt at the handle terminals.  This is the only example with this elaborate tulip decoration yet seen. 
 
Very Good Condition.  Small nibbles on the shoulder molding and base.  A replaced handle with a 6" vertical hairline underneath on one side (closeup).  No rim chips or stains. 
 
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