SCARCE POTTER & DUNHAM, LEWISTON, MAINE, 

MID to LATE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ANTIQUE SIENNA GLAZED STONEWARE CERAMIC ROOT BEER or GINGER BEER BOTTLE, with MAKER'S MARK on SLOPED FRONT SHOULDER & OXIDIZED TIN METAL BAND, CIRCUMNAVIGATING BOTTLE

(Circa 1850-1870)

Mid to late 19th century American primitive decorated stoneware ceramic root beer & ginger beer bottles

DIMENSIONS:

10 ½" Height x 4 ¼" Width (widest point) x 3 ½" base Width

Weight: 3 lbs.

DESCRIPTION:

Clean and very well-preserved. A scarce and very hard-to-find mid-late 19th century Potter & Dunham, Lewiston, ME, American antique primitive decorated stoneware ceramic root beer or ginger beer bottle, with attached, circumnavigating tin band firmly wedged onto its mid-section. The root beer or ginger beer bottle is from southern Maine and the industrial city of Lewiston, Maine's second largest city almost due north of Portland, Maine. The exterior glaze is still glossy, highly reflective and is a complex, speckled, variegated burnt sienna brown finish. The bottle's very well-preserved and has no noticeable flea-bites or ceramic loss to the upper edge of its bulbous pouring spot or along the lower edge of its wire cut baseplate. The sloped front sidewall's shoulder is stamped with a maker's mark in high case typography 'Potter & Dunham, Lewiston, ME.' The bottle's structurally sound, with no hairline cracks to its pouring spout or to the wheel-thrown body. It's a scarce Maine piece of early stoneware.

CONDITION: 

Good to Very Good overall antique condition.