Artist/Maker

Goodwin & Webster

Place Made

Date Made

1810-1830

Medium

stoneware

Dimensions

HOA 15 1/4 __15 1/4

Accession Number

J-132

Description

Salt-glazed staoneware jug with just a touch of cobalt at the top and terminal of handle;handle top is tattcahed to mouth of jug; Stamped “Goodwin/ & Webster/ Hartford.” This jug is typical of the everyday wares produced by the Webster and Goodwin families of Hartford, Connecticutt, and which would have inspired Edward and Chester Webster before they relocated first to Fayetteville, NC, and later to Randolph County, NC, to work as stoneware potters.

Scarborough, Quincy. North Carolina Decorated Stoneware: The Webster School of Folk Potters. Fayetteville, NC: Privately published, 2009.

Credit Line

Wachovia Historical Society