Is this Southern stoneware?

[KentOhio]

I found a pitcher and I think it might be Southern stoneware. It's heavy and crude, with four bands of coggle decoration all around it. It's 6 1/2 inches tall. Is anyone here good with this kind of thing?

 

[KentOhio]

Here's the handle

 

[capsoda]

Is there anywhere that the clay shows through the glaze so you can tell what collor it is? A lot of southern pottery like that was made after the Civil War in Texas and Mexico by southern refugees.

 

[KentOhio]

Here's the bottom. I would call the clay grayish and it seems very dense.

 

[capsoda]

That looks like the stuff all right. Salt glaze on white clay. The refugees saw a need for pottery in the south because the war used up alot of metal items so they started pumping out household items in pottery.

Before the war it was made by the slaves. Your piece looks like the post war stuff but if there are markings it would help ID and value. Look for small slash marks on the lip or tiny initals in the design work.

 

[appliedlips]

I don't know anything about them but that is a good looking piece of stoneware.

 

[OsiaBoyce]

It don't look Southern to me at all, but what do I know.

Most if not all Southern pottery was alkaline glazed and was a more utilitarian design.

If ya get in touch w/ this feller I bet he can tell what it is. A finer man you'll never meet. http://www.sciway.net/photos/upstate-sc/edgefield-pottery/terry-ferrell-pots.html