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Storage Jar

Dateca. 1880

Marked by SC Dickson Pottery

OriginAmerica, South Carolina, Greenville County

MediumAlkaline-glazed stoneware

DimensionsOverall: 25.4 x 18.4cm (10 x 7 1/4in.)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2015.900.5

DescriptionTwo-gallon alkaline-glazed storage jar. Thrown vessel with a slight widening at the center and a tall neck terminating in a slightly everted rim. Two lug handles, on either side of the vessel at the top of the pot, just below the neck. Reddish clay coated in a thick iron-rich glaze with coal cllinkers added to it.

Label TextFolk potters in South Carolina used a wide range of alkaline glaze formulas. The version utilized by potters in the Edgefield District is best known, but it is only one of many types of alkaline glaze. This vessel is more typical of pots produced in Upcountry, South Carolina. In this case the potter added iron slag or cinders from nearby iron furnaces to the glaze to give it the dark black appearance. This glaze variant was first used in the Catawba Valley of North Carolina. The style moved, as people continued to move, south to Greenville by the second half of the nineteenth century.
MarkingsSC Dickson impressed into the pot near the base.
ProvenancePurchased from: Robert R. Hunter Jr.