Item 11276
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Uncommon 2 Gallon Stoneware Decorated Jar made by "H. Loundes, Maker, Petersburg, Va."  
 
Henry Lowndes made stoneware in Petersburg, Virginia from 1830 to 1842.  See Eric Jenkins, Ceramics in Virginia, pp. 184-207 and Charles Umstott, "The Lowndes Stoneware Pottery of Petersburg, Virginia," MESDA Journal, Vol. XXI, No. 2 (Winter 1995), pp. 83-97.
 
Provenance: It comes most recently from the fine collection of William H. Chapman III of Virginia.
 
This beauty features a Finely Potted Semi-Ovoid Form with Pottery Advertising in Script on One Side, and the Tree of Life on the Other Side.  The script is executed with a slip cup by a skilled hand using dark and shiny cobalt  The tree of life is drawn with a stem poured from a slip cup and five branches with leaves and blossoms made with a brush.  Again with dark and shiny cobalt.   Additional cobalt at the handle terminals.  Stands 12" tall.  
 
Most noteworthy is the portrayal of the Tree of Life as a Vine.  Very Unusual (Unique?) among pieces by this maker. 
 
Excellent Condition. A 3/8" chip under one handle and two 1 1/2" chips and a very faint surface x on the underside.  That's it!  No rim chips, hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  
 
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