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Bennington Rockingham Glazed Pitcher

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Bennington Rockingham Glazed Pitcher
For your consideration is an American Bennington Attributed Rockingham Flint Enamel Glazed Pitcher, circa 1840s to 1860s, decorated with Swans on either side of the handle. “Rockingham” originally described a rich chocolate brown glaze made on the Marquis of Rockingham's Swinton estate in Yorkshire, England beginning in 1757. When the Swinton pottery failed in 1842 the glaze went (quite successfully) to potteries in Derbyshire. It also went with hordes of emigrating potters to America. American potters – mostly English immigrants freed from the conventions of their homeland – lost no time in transforming Rockingham into a dripped, splattered, sponged, polychrome marvel. Within three years of its introduction to these shores, Rockingham by James Bennett of Pittsburg, PA won the 1845 Franklin Institute pottery diploma. Trenton, NJ was an epicenter of production, with (émigré) Daniel Greatbatch as perhaps Rockingham’s best practitioner. Christopher Webber Fenton called the Rockingham he made at the Norton Pottery "Flint Enamel". A discerning eye looking at Rockingham’s finest examples becomes lost in the depths of flowing, layered colors. At the risk of hyperbole (a common 19th century trait), one could almost see it as a genuine American Tang glaze, a renown Chinese type of glazing popular during the Tang dynasty.
This Bennington Flint Enamel glazed pitcher is in wonderful condition, exhibits a rich chocolate brown and mocha colored finish, no obvious marring noted. Measures 7.5"H x 8" x 4.25"W.*