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1959.900.2, Jug and 2008.900.1, Storage Jar

Storage Jar

Date1870-1879

Maker Chester Webster (1799 - 1882)

OriginAmerica, North Carolina, Randolph County

MediumSalt-glazed stoneware

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4in. (21cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2008.900.1

DescriptionStraight-sided, one-half gallon, salt-glazed stoneware storage jar with a slight narrowing at the neck and an everted and flared rim, decorated with incised decoration including a poinsettia flower flanked by a bird on one side and a fish on the other, above these designs is one band of geometric-triangles and a second band of geometric-diamonds. Three groups of scored-banding complete the decoration.
Label TextChester Webster was born in Hartford, Connecticut and moved to North Carolina with his family about 1818 when he was nineteen years old. This jar is decorated with incised lines, which form detailed designs including a bird, fish, and poinsettia flower. Chester Webster used incised lines as his primary method of decoration. This style links his wares both to earlier nineteenth-century vessels made by his ancestors who worked in Connecticut and to English eighteenth-century stoneware traditions.
ProvenanceFormerly in the Collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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