English, abolitionist grey stoneware pitcher produced ca 1858, base impressed with mark: E. Ridgway and Abington, Hanley, January 1, 185?. With hinged, pewter lid. Ht. approx. 8 in., wd. approx. 6.75 in. This pre-Civil War, anti-slavery pitcher displays two compelling scenes in relief from Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852. Front features a broadside that says By auction this day, a prime lot of healthy negroes, and depicts a slave auction, with a devastated, soon-to-be-separated slave family; opposite side shows the fugitive slave, Eliza, fleeing north from enslavement, carrying a baby in her arms across the ice floes of the Ohio River, from the state of Kentucky into the state of Ohio, while a man with a whip in hand chases her. The handle is decorated with the iconic image of the head and clasped hands of a slave, presumably Uncle Tom, in prayer. Another example of this scarce antebellum pitcher is housed at the Leicester Museum & Galleries in England. The pitcher is accompanied by the following book: The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." London: Clarke, Beeton, and Co., 1853. 12mo, cloth covered boards with gilt spine, 508pp. Eliza's near miraculous crossing of the Ohio River, as depicted in relief on the pitcher, is referenced on p.34 of this book, and is confirmed by Stowe as being based on an incident that occurred in real life. Condition: Few cracks along rim of pewter lid, including one near handle and one to the right of the handle. Expected shelf wear to book.
English, abolitionist grey stoneware pitcher produced ca 1858, base impressed with mark: E. Ridgway and Abington, Hanley, January 1, 185?. With hinged, pewter lid. Ht. approx. 8 in., wd. approx. 6.75 in. This pre-Civil War, anti-slavery pitcher displays two compelling scenes in relief from Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852. Front features a broadside that says By auction this day, a prime lot of healthy negroes, and depicts a slave auction, with a devastated, soon-to-be-separated slave family; opposite side shows the fugitive slave, Eliza, fleeing north from enslavement, carrying a baby in her arms across the ice floes of the Ohio River, from the state of Kentucky into the state of Ohio, while a man with a whip in hand chases her. The handle is decorated with the iconic image of the head and clasped hands of a slave, presumably Uncle Tom, in prayer. Another example of this scarce antebellum pitcher is housed at the Leicester Museum & Galleries in England. The pitcher is accompanied by the following book: The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." London: Clarke, Beeton, and Co., 1853. 12mo, cloth covered boards with gilt spine, 508pp. Eliza's near miraculous crossing of the Ohio River, as depicted in relief on the pitcher, is referenced on p.34 of this book, and is confirmed by Stowe as being based on an incident that occurred in real life. Condition: Few cracks along rim of pewter lid, including one near handle and one to the right of the handle. Expected shelf wear to book.
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