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

Winter 2025 Auction of the Carole Wahler Collection

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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, cylindrical 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. Significant surface wear to body of jar and underside. Rim with heavy wear, two large chips, and a smaller chip. Chips and wear to handles. A thin 4" crack in underside, continuing 4 1/2" up base of jar on proper right side. Significant wear to interior. H 12 1/2".

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