Very Rare Redware Jar w/ Utica, New York Advertising, circa 1840

Summer 2020 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 270

Price Realized: $660.00

($550 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Very Rare Glazed Redware Jar with Utica, NY Advertising, Northeastern U.S. origin, circa 1840, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and flared rim, impressed with the advertising, "J.E. WARNER & CO. / Wholesale & Retail Druggists, / Nos. 22 & 21 Genesee St. / UTICA." Jared E. Warner was a long-time Utica druggist, described in the 1892 Memorial History of Utica, N. Y. as follows: "By the present generation the house of Jared E. Warner has been familiarly known ... . An heirloom it holds direct from the earliest druggists of Utica is a large show bottle in the front window of the store, which contains the identical colored fluid that was poured into it in 1812. Articles in which Mr. Warner once dealt largely besides his ordinary trade were the essential oils of peppermint, spearmint, etc., which were distilled for him in the northern part of the county and which he exported. Mr. Warner was closely attentive to his concerns and content with the steady acquisitions of his calling. Being treasurer of the County Bible Society, agent of the American Board of Foreign Missions, of the American Tract Society, etc., his store was made the place of deposit and distribution of numerous relegious (sic) publications. For many years he was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and also president of the Utica City National Bank." Impressed merchant advertising of this style is typically found on salt-glazed stoneware and rarely seen in this clay medium. Provenance: From a forty-year private collection. A 1 1/2" x 5/8" filled section to rim with surface abrasions to its left and right. Additional light surface wear to body. H 9".