Exceptional Small-Sized attrib. Trapp & Chandler (Kirksey's Crossroads, Edgefield, SC) Stoneware Pitcher

Spring 2026 Auction of the David & Jongy Ward Collection

Lot #: 30

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Exceptional Small-Sized Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Pitcher with Iron Slip Decoration, attributed to the Thomas Chandler and Reverend John Trapp Pottery, Kirksey's Crossroads, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1848-1850, thin-walled pitcher with bulbous body, slightly-flared collar, and heavily-pinched spout, decorated with large iron slip looping line decoration around the body and collar against a grayish alkaline-glazed ground. Desirable form and size, featuring bold decoration. Exhibited/Literature: Great Pots from the Traditions of North & South Carolina, North Carolina Pottery Center, May 6 - July 22, 2017, pp. 1, 51, and 194 of exhibition catalog. Hewitt, editor of Great Pots ... (the exhibition catalog), describes this pitcher with the words, "Iron wash under feldspathic glaze. Russet bleeds. A beautiful and unusual sweetheart." Provenance: Acquired by the Wards privately in the Newberry, SC area. Two 4" lines to body of pitcher, not visible on interior. Two small, professionally restored rim chips. Professional restoration to shallow chipping to spout. A 2" line to interior of collar, visible as a 1 1/4" line on exterior of collar. Additional surface crazing to interior of spout and collar, not visible on exterior.



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