Two-gallon Jug with Basket of Flowersc. 185812 1/2 x 8 x 8 1/2 " (31.8 x 20.3 x 21.6 cm)Stoneware with cobalt decorationGift of the Harvey and Ruth Miller Charitable Fund2017.5.60Late nineteenth-century salt glaze stoneware pottery two gallon jug with cobalt decoration of basket of flowers. Stamped “W.A. Lewis, Galesville, NY.” Signed W.A. Lewis stoneware is scarce. W.A. Lewis joined his brother Otto’s pottery around 1852. According to William C. Ketchum and Warren F. Broderick “William A Lewis operated the Galesville pottery alone from 1858 until 1860, when the Census taken that year lists him as a ‘farm laborer’ living in Greenwich. A number of blue-decorated stoneware vessels exist bearing the mark ‘WALEWIS/GALESVILLE’; many of them have attractive, sometimes elaborate floral decorations. William A. Lewis appears to have given up the potter's trade and worked the remainder of his life as a farmer…At some time Frederick A. Gale (1810–1882) become directly involved in the Galesville pottery's management, although he was not a potter by trade.
[Frederick Gale was painted by Ammi Phillips at the age of four or five. The portrait is considered one of the masterpieces of American folk portraiture.]
1558285535William A. LewisContainersCopyright for this work is under review.'W.A. Lewis, Galesville, NY.'http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24557Galesville (now Middle Falls)Galesville (now Middle Falls)United StatesNew YorkThree Dimensional WorksGalesville (now Middle Falls)Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
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