Exceptional Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Pitcher with Profuse Iron Slip Decoration, attributed to the Thomas Chandler Pottery, Kirksey's Crossroads, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1850, stylishly potted pitcher, with rotund belly, footed base, and tall flaring collar with squared rim; lavishly decorated around the midsection in slip-trailed iron slip with curved looping line motifs descending from groups of three draped lines. Collar decorated with large elliptical loops of iron slip. Gray-green, alkaline-glazed ground. Among Chandler's finest decorated pitchers from this period known, this work is distinguished by its abundant slip-trailing and unusual third draped line added to the motif. Exhibited/Literature: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 8, 2022 - February 5, 2023, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 6, 2023 - July 9, 2023, University of Michigan Museum of Art, August 26, 2023 - January 7, 2024, High Museum of Art, February 16, 2024 - May 12, 2024, p. 103, pl. 13, and p. 172 of exhibition catalog. An approximately 3 3/4" x 7/8" professionally restored section to proper left side of rim, not affecting spout. Some in-the-making wrinkles in clay to base and underside, not visible on interior. H 10".
