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Jar

A work made of earthenware and lead and copper glazes.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of earthenware and lead and copper glazes.

Date:

c. 1830

Artist:

Edward William Farrar (American, 1808-1845)
Middlebury, Vermont

About this artwork

Stamped with the name of its maker, Edward William Farrar, this jar is the earliest marked example of Vermont redware currently known. Although early Vermont potters favored stoneware, some continued to work in the hand-thrown redware technique through the first part of the 19th century. Descended on both sides from important ceramists, Farrar learned his craft in his father’s Middlebury pottery. This jar is unusually monumental with exceptionally elaborate decoration: the stamped bands of geometric design contrast with the curves of the green glaze swags and the ruffles around the neck. These elements, coupled with the fact that the jar is signed, may indicate that it was made as a matriculation piece to signal the end of Farrar’s apprenticeship to his father.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Edward William Farrar

Title

Jar

Place

Middlebury (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1830

Medium

Earthenware and lead and copper glazes

Inscriptions

Signed, on shoulder, stamped in metal type: "E W Farrar".

Dimensions

23.9 × 21.3 cm (9 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Juli and David Grainger Fund

Reference Number

2007.219

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