Rare One-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Impressed Drape Decoration, Stamped "LIBERTY FOREV / WARNE & LETTs 1807," South Amboy, NJ origin, 1807, ovoid jar with footed base, heavily-tooled shoulder, tall collar, and thin, open loop handles; shoulder impressed with the maker's mark, "LIBERTY FOREV / WARNE & LETTs 1807," below a saw-toothed border. An impressed and cobalt-highlighted pointing hand appears to the right of the inscription, "LIBERY FOREV." Midsection of jar decorated with an impressed and cobalt-highlighted, scalloped drape motif. Brushed cobalt highlights to handle terminals. This example features unusually delicate, open handles and an impeccable provenance linking it to one of the 20th century's leading American stoneware collectors/scholars, Georgeanna Greer, and one of the formative figures in the scholarship of New Jersey stoneware, W. Oakley Raymond. Provenance: Ex-W. Oakley Raymond Collection (includes Raymond collection stickers on underside); Ex-Georgeanna H. Greer Collection; Harmer Rooke Galleries Auction of the Georgeanna H. Greer Collection, November 18, 1992, illustrated on cover of auction catalog. A 1 7/8" in-the-firing flake to bottom edge on front. A Y-shaped crack extends off from this, part of which extends towards the shoulder area on the front and part of which extends onto the midsection of the reverse. Two very minor in-the-firing rim nicks. H 9 1/4".
