Cream pot

1870-1900

Maker

Probably Daniel Peter Shenfelder (1839-1904)

Measurements

6 x 8-3/4 in (dia)

Materials

Cobalt-decorated salt-glazed stoneware

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison

Accession Number

1969.407.4

Comments

The relatively low, buff-colored, large ovoid bowl was called a cream pot, used to separate cream from milk.  It has a narrow, projecting lip above an incised line scored into the body.  One side is decorated in cobalt blue with a tulip-like flower.  The inside of the crock has a dark brown glaze.  Based on comparisons to marked examples, it is probably the work of Daniel Peter Shenfelder (1839-1904) of Reading, Pennsylvania.  D.P. Shenfelder was a brickmaker who, according to the 1870 US Census, was making stoneware by 1870.