Item 11179
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Rare 1 Gallon Stoneware Decorated Jar made by "H. Loundes, Manufactory, Petersburg, Va."  
 
Henry Lowndes made stoneware in Petersburg, Virginia from 1830 to 1842.  See Eric Jenkiins, 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.
 
Pedigree: Featured in Eric Jenkins, Ceramics in Virginia, p. 200, fig. 5.13. It comes most recently from the fine collection of William H. Chapman III of Virginia.
 
This beauty features the Pottery Advertising in Script on one Side, and the Tree of Life on the Other Side.  What makes this jar unique is the fact that this is the only known example with a Straight Vertical Rim found in New England and New York Stoneware rather than the rounded rim typical of this maker.  Stands 9" tall.
 
Exceptional Condition.  As made.  No damage of any kind!