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Six-Gallon Crock

Date1861-1891

Artist/Maker New York Stoneware Co.

OriginAmerica, New York, Fort Edward

MediumStoneware, salt-glazed, gray with blue and Albany slip interior

Dimensions13" x 13 5/8" (33.0 cm. x 34.6 cm.)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1975.900.3

DescriptionLarge crock with molded handles on each side. Blue underglaze decoration of eagle with banner. Stamped above eagle with maker's name and symbol.
Label TextMoralizing stoneware decorators often combined a sort of "kitchen philosophy" with a record of current affairs. The American eagle and pendant banner continued to be popular throughout the nineteenth century. A more common eagle and banner inscription used by the New York Stoneware Company was "Union Forever."
InscribedInscription in banner: "Today / We Live / Tomorrow / We May / be ded'
MarkingsImpressed "NEW YORK/STONEWARE CO./FORT EDWARD, N.Y./6".
ProvenanceMaze Pottinger Antiques, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.