Four-Gallon Salt-Glazed Stoneware Jar Stamped JC (John Wesley Carpenter, Piper's Gap, Carroll County, VA)

Winter 2025 Auction of the Carole Wahler Collection

Lot #: 213

Price Realized: $360.00

($300 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Four-Gallon Salt-Glazed Stoneware Jar, Stamped "JC," John Wesley Carpenter, Piper's Gap, Carroll County, VA, fourth quarter 19th century, ovoid jar with flattened rim, arched lug handles, and incised straight and wavy line decoration to shoulder. Impressed at shoulder with "JC" maker's mark along with a four-gallon capacity mark. Surface dipped in kaolin slip and covered in a clear salt glaze. Literature: For related examples, see Compton, "John Wesley Carpenter: Tradition, Innovation, and Adaptation in a Shattered Post-Civil War South," Ceramics in America 2023. Heavy chipping to rim. A thin 3 1/4" crack from rim on front. A vertical 3" surface line to base. Heavy chipping and wear to handles. Chips and wear to base. Traces of old green paint to surface. A salt glob to base on reverse. Some light surface wear. H 16 3/8".