Item 11278
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Superb 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:  Pictured in Eric C. Jenkinis, Ceramics in Virginia, p. 198, Figure 5.11.  It comes most recently from the fine collection of William H. Chapman III of Virginia.
 
This beauty features an Unusual Form and Decoration.  The potter made a straight-sided jar for one thing, and then framed the Pottery Script Advertising with a Tree of Life on Both Sides of the Script rather than on the Back.   The script is executed with a slip cup by a skilled hand using dark and shiny cobalt  The trees of life are drawn with a leafy stem poured from a slip cup sporting 7 blossoms on the left and 8 blossoms on the right made with a brush.  Again with dark and shiny cobalt.  Additional cobalt at the handle terminals.  Stands 15" tall.
 
Excellent Condition.  A couple small chips on the rim and base (1/8", 1/4").  Nibbles under the left handle and two chips on the right handle (1/2").  No hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration. 
 
One of the best Lowndes jars for form, decoration, and condition that you will ever find. 
 
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