Item 10828
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this handsome 3 Gallon Preserve Jar made for "Smith & Pell, Grocers, Cor. of 8 Av. & 21 St." (New York City)
 
The decoration is distinctive of the Hudson Valley Pottery of West 12th Street, N.Y. , N.Y. This pottery belonged to the brothers Edward and John Roche who ran it from 1849 to 1858.  It was then was sold to Louis Lehman and subsequently to William MacQuoid (William Ketchum, Jr., Potters and Potteries of New York State, 1650-1900, pp. 61-62). 
 
This beauty features a Larger Size, Tooled Flared Rim, Inscribed Shoulder, Applied Handles, and a Huge Tulip with Four Dotted Leaves and a Blossom with Three Dotted Petals.  This was a design distinctive to the Hudson River Pottery.  Simple design but commanding of the entire front of the jar with flare!  Executed with a slip cup in bright cobalt.  Stands 13 3/4" tall.
 
Good Condition.  A 1/2" chip on the inner lid seating ring and inside the rim, some surface craze lines, and some staining from use.  Three hairlines with tributaries:  to the left of the decoration reaching neither top ro bottom (closeup 1), one in the decoration also not reaching top bottom (closeup 2), and one below the right handle that wraps under and fades across the bottom (closeup 3).  Solid.  No restoration. 
 
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