STONE ADV JUG
HICKS RUBBER WACO TEX
Jug stands 14-1/2" tall and looks like it would hold about 1-1/2 gallons. There is an applied handle.
This is a Red Wing Stone Ware is an early jug, advertising the Live Oak Grocery in Dallas Texas. There are many advertising jugs from the Mid West, but finding one from this far south is quite unusual. This advertising jug is 11" tall, and 7" in diameter.
Circa 1875 5 Gallon DOUBLE HANDLED
Wooten Well Co JUG - PERFECT CONDITION This is the best example of a Wooten Wells jug I have seen and the only
one with the Fowler impressed mark. Wooten Wells was a town in eastern Falls
County, Texas. It's sole reason for existence was a mineral water spring
around which a health spa was built in the late 1800's. The water was so
highly regarded as a cure-all, that the owners began bottling it for home
use, and contracted with John Fowler to make these huge two-handled jugs.
This jug is unique in that it has three different identifying marks: The
thick cobalt stencil identifying the company for whom it was made; the
deeply impressed word "FOWLER" just above the base below the stencil; and
Fowler's unique number "5" which, if the other marks were not there, would
be enough to identify it as Fowler's work.
Ultra Rare Impressed Fowler Pottery
Co. Signature
In 1872 John Fowler bought out the pottery shop of Wm. Knox in Oletha, Limestone County, TX. He established a fairly large operation for a rural shop of the time, growing to employ over 60 workers before it closed for good in 1910. The 50 foot tall smokestack from Fowler's "Old Potter Shop" is still standing and adjoining the kiln site is an old cemetery where many of the potters are buried. Collectors have assumed for some time that Fowler made the Wooten Wells jugs. Now, with the discovery of this marked example, it is certain.
The jug itself is in fabulous condition. It is a perfect
example of Texas salt glazed stoneware, showing all of the clay, glazing,
and firing problems that the early Texas potter had to deal with. It stands
19 inches tall and is 11 inches in diameter at its widest point.
It is salt glazed and has a dull gray-brown color that changes with the
light source. The glaze flaws you see in the photos are of two different
types; The greenish blobs are salt which dripped off of the ceiling of the
kiln during firing. The light and dark splotches are the result of uneven
heat in the primitive kiln. The interior of the jug is glazed with a brown
natural clay slip. The roughness around the base is pre-glazing wear from
the dirt floor of the pottery shop and kiln.
Seller: finejunk
Sold on Ebay
10-14-04
$1,556.50 + shipping and tax
