$1,320
"COMMERAWS STONEWARE" Jar with Incised Cobalt Decoration, Thomas Commeraw, Manhattan, New York, late 18th/early 19th century, wide-mouth gallon-size ovoid jar with open ear handles with cobalt-daubed terminals, molded neck above the shoulder ornamented with incised swag and tassels filled with cobalt blue glaze, impressed maker's mark "COMMERAWS STONEWARE," (hairline), ht. 9 3/4 in. Note: According to recent research by Brandt Zipp, a stoneware historian and auctioneer in Sparks, Maryland, Thomas W. Commeraw was a free African American potter working in the late 18th-early 19th century, on Manhattan Island, New York. His workshop was located on the Lower East Side waterfront, and his surviving body of work represents the largest known by a free black potter before the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27
