Extremely Rare Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Bowl with Elaborate Iron Slip Decoration, Stamped "TRAPP & / CHANDLER," Reverend John Trapp and Thomas Chandler, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1848-1850, flaring bowl with flattened rim and arched tab handles, lavishly-decorated on the interior wall with dramatic iron-slip looping drape designs surrounding a stylized flower blossom at center, all applied over a bluish alkaline-glazed ground. Impressed with the short-lived partnership mark of Reverend John Trapp and Thomas Chandler within flower blossom. Exterior with light olive alkaline glaze featuring raised bluish highlights. Featuring an exceptional form, outstanding decoration and color, and rare stamp, this work is the finest example of stoneware bearing a Chandler maker's mark that we have ever offered. Attesting to the rarity of its form, this lot is the first signed Edgefield bowl that we have ever offered. Provenance: From a fifty-year SC collection. A 7/8" chip to one handle. A long, thin sealed crack descending from rim onto interior, forming a long Y-shaped line on interior. A thin, sealed 4 1/8" line from rim. Diam. 13 7/8" ; H 5 1/2".
