Item 11273
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Uncommon 3 Gallon Stoneware Decorated Jar made by "H. Loundes, Manufactor, 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: Featured in Eric Jenkins, Ceramics in Virginia, p. 197, fig. 5.9. It comes most recently from the fine collection of William H. Chapman III of Virginia.
 
This beauty features a Finely Potted Semi-Ovoid Jar with Pottery Advertising in Bold 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 with the capacity number drawn below one handle.  Stands 14" tall.  
 
Very Good Condition.  A 1" chip under the right handle and a tight horizontal hairline through "Petersburg."  Some surface lines inside not visible outside (closeup).   No rim or base chips, cracks, stains, or restoration.  
 
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