Artist/Maker

Landrum-Stork Pottery __Attributed to

Place Made

Date Made

circa 1850

Medium

stoneware –alkaline-glazed

Dimensions

HOA: 12; DIA 10 1/2″

Accession Number

5813.120

Description

Thrown stoneware jar with flared rim and applied lug handles. Thick alkaline glaze has a strong green cast. Attributed to the Landrum-Stork Pottery of Columbia, South Carolina.

MAKER: After a successful career establishing the stoneware industry at Pottersville in Edgefield, South Carolina, and publishing a newspaper, The Edgefield Hive, Abner Landrum (1771-1859) moved in 1831 to the capitol city of Columbia, where he published the state’s Unionist newspaper and established a second stoneware pottery in Richland County. After Abner’s death in 1859, the pottery was owned by his son Linneaus and assisted by his son-in-law, John J. Stork.

Credit Line

The William C. and Susan S. Mariner Collection