Extremely Rare One-and-a-Half-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Pitcher, attributed to Moro Phillips and Sanford Perry, Trees Point Pottery, Charles City County, VA, circa 1849-1853, wide-bodied, ovoid pitcher with squared rim, tooling to base of collar, and ribbed handle, brush-decorated with four groups of swags around the midsection, underscored by a looping stripe. An additional cobalt accent appears at the collar. Front impressed with distinctive Trees Point Pottery one-and-a-half-gallon capacity mark. Albany slip to interior. Very few examples of intact stoneware from this short-lived site have been recorded and this lot is the only pitcher from this pottery that we have offered. A cylindrical jar with related decoration and matching capacity mark was featured in the exhibit, "From Kaolin to Claymount: Demystifying James River Valley Stoneware," held at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, NC, November 2012 - March 2013. Provenance: From a fifty-year VA collection. A shallow chip and small nick to spout. Other shallow rim chips. An approximately 1 1/4" flaked section to side of handle. Some surface wear to front. H 11".
