Stoneware butter jar
date: label: date made
content: 1805-1813
name: label: maker
content: Clark, Nathan
label: maker
content: Howe, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: This salt-glazed stoneware butter jar is decorated with hand applied cobalt, and is one of the earliest pieces made at the Athens, New York pottery established in 1805 by Nathan Clark and his brother-in-law, Thomas Howe. Howe died in 1813 leaving Clark to run and expand the company. He established subsidiaries in Kingston, Lyons, Rochester and Mt. Morris, New York between 1813 and 1838. The firm prospered until the end of the 1800s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Athens
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Food
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: New York Stoneware
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0803.53
label: accession number
content: 1977.0803
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0803.053
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: butter jar
label: Object Name
content: jar, butter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, stoneware, coarse (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 cm x 23 cm; 12 19/32 in x 9 1/16 in