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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 May 25 @ 08:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
SCRAFFITO DECORATED REDWARE SUGAR URN. An important American tin- or lead-glazed redware covered urn, probably from Eastern Pennsylvania or perhaps Maryland, circa 1820-30. Overall height 7" to top of acorn finial; the footed urn 5" from table ring to lip of vessel; 6" at orifice; circa 6.75" at waist. Two applied loop handles just below lip. Scraffito inscription on body: "Mary ++ Embich" When I am Dead and in my Grave and all my bones are wrotten when this you see Remember me These indicate that Mary Embich was born in 1797 and left Hagerstown, Maryland when she was eleven. She died in 1874. The urn was later owned by Julia Smith (1879-1971) of north-central Ohio, her daughter Dorothy Smith of Cincinnati, and thence to the present owner. The notes with the urn indicate that "Mary Embich was John's grandmother Smith's name." " Information relating to the early potteries of Hagerstown is scant, but the urn bears little resemblance to the work of the Bell family who were in Hagerstown before leaving for Winchester and Waynesboro, Virginia. Furthermore, the 1800,1810 and 1820 census records for Maryland reveal no Embich's in Maryland during this thirty-year interval. A cursory examination of census e records found an Israel Embich (1796-1850) who was a resident of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania and married Christina Rohland (1802-1889). They had a daughter Marian (Mary?) in 1831, but the urn probably pre-dates her birth. These genealogical data are far from conclusive, but point to a Pennsylvania origin for the urn. The collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art contains at least two similar white-slipped, covered redware urns. Both are decorated with floral motifs, one in a scraffito-style that is marked "HH" on the bottom. Both were apparently collected in Pennsylvania. Kirtley of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Gene Comstock, author of The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley (1994) for their research and helpful suggestions). There is a tight, as-made shrinkage crack visible on the interior of the urn, and one handle has a tight hairline. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY LIVE AUCTIONS BETWEEN 11:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT ON MAY 25, 2002. REGISTER NOW TO BID LIVE ONLINE THE DAY OF THE SALE! (EST 5000-7000)
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