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EMANUEL SUTER ATTRIBUTED, ROCKINGHAM CO., SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA STONEWARE FLOWER POT, salt-glazed, "10" within a square frame mark to top of flat-top rim, conical form, double incised shoulder rings, and punched drain hole to base.
Condition:
Excellent undamaged condition.
Circa : 1870-1890.
Item Dimensions: 8" H, 10 3/4" D rim.
Provenance : From the collection of Dr. Scott H. Suter, Bridgewater, VA.
Ex-collection of Mary E. Suter, recovered from the Suter home place.
Exhibited: Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, Dayton, VA, 2004, "A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware - The Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery," #139.
Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, VA, February 5-March 5, 1978.
Estimate : 100 - 150
Attribution : Probably Emanuel Suter (1833-1902), New Erection Pottery (1866-1890), west of Harrisonburg, VA.
Catalog Note : Published: Evans/Suter - A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware, p. 80, fig. 139.
Comstock - The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region, p. 344, fig. 6.84.
Catalogue Note: According to Evans/Suter, flower pots were a huge part of Suter's production at his New Erection site, ranging in size from 1" to 12" in diameter. In March of 1886 he built a small kiln strictly to burn flower pots. On September 3, 1886, he began to fill an order for 20,000 flower pots from a Staunton, VA merchant. Despite the vast numbers of flower pots produced by Suter, very few examples survive to this day.