Lot #: 277
Price Realized: $1,680.00
($1,400 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Extremely Rare Rockingham Ware Frog Pitcher, Embossed "D REGAN," Incised "Daniel Regan / August 3 / 1870," Daniel Regan at the John L. Rue and Company Pottery, South Amboy, NJ, 1870, molded pitcher with twig-form handle and relief decoration of hunters on horseback and hounds chasing a stag, the collar with relief grape vine motif. Front shoulder features the name, "D REGAN," in applied white block letters. Underside incised "Daniel Regan / August 3 / 1870." Born circa 1854 in Ireland, Daniel Regan immigrated to America in 1866 and is listed in the 1870 federal census as a 16-year-old laborer living in South Amboy; in the 1880 census he is specifically called a potter, so he was probably apprenticed to the potter's trade when this pitcher was made. Interior base with molded and applied figure of a frog covered in a blue-and-brown flint enamel glaze. Surface covered in a mottled reddish-brown to dark-brown glaze over a yellowish ground. This pitcher is one of a small number of New Jersey Rockingham pitchers known with a hand-incised potter's signature. The intriguing placement of the potter's name on both the shoulder and underside indicate this work was either made by Regan for his own personal use or as a gift for his father, who shared his name. Arguably the best example of New Jersey Rockingham ware that we have ever offered. Illustrated in Goldberg, "Highlights in the Development of the Rockingham and Yellow Ware Industry in the United States: A Brief Review with Representative Examples," Ceramics in America 2003, fig. 26. Three small rim chips and minor rim wear. Shallow chips to top of handle. A few small base chips and an in-the-firing contact mark to underside. Some flakes to high points of relief decoration. H 8 3/4".
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