Figure 34 Storage jars, Schermerhorn Pottery, Richmond, Virginia, 1817–1837. Salt-glazed stoneware. H. 11 7/8" (2 gallons); 14" (3 gallons). (Private collection.) These two important stoneware jars show the heretofore undocumented association of the horizontally oriented brushed-cobalt floral spray with undulating vines interspersed with opposing or alternating floral blossoms with the brushed blue cobalt capacity designations underscored with horizontal lines and a squiggle suggestive of (depending on the crock) either a J or an S like the one on the reverse of the incised self-portrait crock.
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