Hiram Wilson Stoneware Pottery Jar
date: label: Date made
content: 1869 - 1884
notes: label: Description
content: This stoneware jar was made in Guadalupe County, Texas, by H. Wilson & Company, as shown by the impressed mark on the shoulder. The company was formed when a group of formerly enslaved potters, including Hiram (1836-1864), James (1847-1917), Wallace, and several others bearing the surname Wilson, separated from the Guadalupe Pottery when John M. Wilson sold his remaining interest in the latter company in 1869. Hiram Wilson and the others learned the pottery craft while owned by John M. Wilson, who was a minister and a farmer. Upon emancipation, they took Wilson as their surnames. The shape of this stoneware jar and others produced at H. Wilson & Company suggests a strong connection to the Edgefield District of South Carolina where enslaved potters worked between 1820 and 1860. The Edgefield potters brought their skills when they moved to eastern and central Texas.
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0088.01.ab
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0088.01.ab
label: accession number
content: 1993.0088
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jar with Lid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: stoneware (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thrown (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 19.05 cm