Artist/Maker

Seagle, Daniel __Attributed to

Place Made

Date Made

1837

Medium

alkaline-glazed –stoneware

Dimensions

HOA: 12 3/8″ WOA Handle to Handle 9 1/2″; DOA 8 1/2″

Accession Number

5813.118

Description

Alkaline-glazed jar with swelling form and applied lug handles. Incised around upper body “the day after the election 1837” and with impressed mark JCM.

MAKER:
The identity of the “JCM” mark has been the subject of debate. One possibility, put forward by researchers Tom and Lana Kleeberg, is that it is a merchant mark rather than the maker. The Kleebergs posit that JCM may be John Michal or his father Johann Conrad Michal, who were merchants and politicans in Lincolnton and Rutherfordton, North Carolina. This association is made in part due to this particular jar: John Michal was elected as Clerk of the Superior Court of Lincoln County in August 1837.

The pottery workshop of Daniel Seagle may be the producer of the JCM marked ceramics. Seagle’s shop was close to Lincolnton, county seat of Lincoln where John Michal was elected to office. The Kleebergs noted multiple documented interactions between the Seagle and Michal families in the form of church rolls and marriage records. The JCM marked objects also closely resemble known Seagle attributed ceramics.

Credit Line

The William C. and Susan S. Mariner Collection