Very Rare "Daniel Reichard / 1801" Redware Jar w/ St. Ambrose Motifs, Washington Co, MD or Dauphin Co, PA

Summer 2026 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 43

Price Realized: $1,200.00

($1,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Very Rare Manganese-Decorated Redware Jar with St. Ambrose Motifs, Signed "Daniel Reichard / 1801," Washington County, MD or Dauphin County, PA origin, 1801, cylindrical wheel-thrown jar with large molded and applied relief panels of St. Ambrose, inscribed "AMBRO / SIUS," interspersed with a man's head and a series of impressed asterisks. Exterior surface covered in a lead-and-manganese glaze. Clear lead glaze to interior. Underside incised "Daniel Reichard / 1801," a potter well documented by H. E. Comstock in his The Pottery of Shenandoah Valley Region (p. 455), and in detail by Thomas Williams' in his 1906 A History of Washington County, Maryland (pp. 966-968). Born in Dauphin County (Harrisburg area) in 1780, Reichard and his family moved to Washington County, MD (near Hagerstown) in or about 1795, where he received his training as a potter. Though Williams notes that Reichard was married as a young man in Dauphin County, it is unclear if he was there for any extended period of time, he being more or less a consistent resident of Washington County since boyhood until moving to the Florida Territory in 1831. Interestingly, a previously surfaced related religiously themed jar bears the initials "D.B.R.," written about in detail by Justin Thomas in his "Religious Red Earthenware Tobacco Jars ..." in the April 19, 2024 issue of Antiques and The Arts Weekly. Thomas proposed the idea that "D.B.R." was the potter Daniel Reichard, and this newly discovered "Daniel Reichard / 1801" jar establishes conclusively that this is the case. Base with a 1 1/4" chip, a 1/2" chip, and wear. Wear to relief decoration. Most of glaze missing from rim. H 6 1/4".

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