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Rare NC Daniel Seagle stamped 5 gallon jar

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Exceedingly rare Catawba Valley North Carolina 5 gallon jar or churn, Daniel Seagle (1805-1867), Lincoln County, NC. Incised lines on the underside of  a flaring rim, one handle stamped "D.S." (there is a small circle stamp on one side of the D.S. and a raised six point star on the other side), A "5" is stamped on the other handle. Green alkaline glaze with brown/green runs with extensive pooling of glaze in the bottom of the jar. This DS stamp is similar to a Daniel Seagle stamp illustrated in Two Centuries of Potters: A Catawba Valley Tradition, Lincoln County Historical Association, p. 19, figure 12. For an additional illustrated example of a rare Catawba Valley jar/churn form, refer to The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery, Mark Hewitt & Nancy Sweezy, p. 149, figure 61.   An illustration of Daniel Seagle marks are also shown from Linda Carnes McNaughton 1997 unpublished doctoral dissertation in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Transitions and Continuity:Earthenware and Stoneware production in Nineteenth century North Carolina" courtesy of Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society catalog number 13, 1999, Billy Ray Hussey. 19.5" height. Condition - old, shallow chip on rim and under handle, old age crack to base. Circa 1830-1840.

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