Rare Glazed Redware Jar, Stamped "C.A. HAUN & CO NO 1," Christopher Alexander Haun, Greene County, TN, circa 1840-1860, ovoid jar with flaring, semi-rounded rim, the surface covered in a clear lead glaze over a mottled orange-to-olive ground. Shoulder coggled with the repeating raised-face maker's mark, "C.A. HAUN & CO," including the vertical stamp, "NO 1." This jar features one of the clearest maker's marks by this potter that we have seen. It is also distinguished as a jar that broadened our understanding of the state's ceramic industry, noted in Wahler's Tennessee Turned, p. 194, as the "First C.A. Haun pot to be documented in the late 1970s." A sticker on the underside of the jar additionally reads, "Original Haun from 1977." Christopher Alexander Haun (1821-1861) was a Union sympathizer during the Civil War who, on November 8, 1861, participated in the burning of a Confederate railroad bridge along Lick Creek in Greene County, Tennessee. Convicted of treason and hanged by the Confederacy, Haun left behind a moving letter to his wife, Elizabeth, instructing her to have fellow potters "fishing off [his] ware ... for [her] support." Haun is regarded today as Tennessee's most gifted potter and revered as a man of principle who died for the Union cause. Exhibited: Tennessee Turned, Earthenware and Stoneware Made in East Tennessee 1800-1900, Museum of East Tennessee History, May 16-October 30, 2011. Literature: Illustrated in Wahler, Tennessee Turned, Earthenware and Stoneware Made in East Tennessee 1800-1900, Part One, p. 49, fig. 37 and p. 194, pl. 37. Excellent condition with minor glaze wear. H 5 3/8".
