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Object |
Jar |
Artist/Creator |
Farrar, Edward William |
Year Range from |
1825 |
Year Range to |
1830 |
Description |
Glazed redware jar with copper slip decoration, attributed to Edward William Farrar, Middlebury, Vermont. Ovoid jar with angled shoulder, tall, heavily-tooled collar, and ribbed lug handles with depressed terminals. Shoulder decorated with elaborate sawtoothed coggled decoration in a crossing pattern above band of the same coggling. Coggle design also along the top edge of the rim. Slip-trailed copper wavy line decoration to shoulder, midsection, and collar. Manganese spot decoration to shoulder and copper touches to rim. Surface covered in a clear lead glaze over colorful, mottled-orange ground. |
Height (inches) |
8.500 |
Information |
This jar is one of a small group of the earliest and most sophisticated pieces of redware that can be definitively attributed to Edward William Farrar of Middlebury, Vermont. it features some interesting and unusual decorative techniques/motifs, including green slip (a colored glaze made from watered down clay and powdered metallic oxides), roulette designs (an impressed pattern applied with a tool similar to a rolling pie crimper), and distinctively formed handles and rim. |
Related People |
Farrar, Edward William |
Credit line |
Museum Purchase, funds provided by exchange from the Channing Hare-Mountford Coolidge Collection |
Catalog Number |
2022.5 |