So what makes a top piece of redware? For today’s column, I only selected plates for comparison. “Condition, size, age, technique, maker (if known) and uniqueness of the decoration bring the highest prices,” confirms Anne Gilbert, from the site Antique Detective. It appears that the collecting attributes of rarity and quality still hold true.
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., attributed to Diehl Pottery with yellow, green, and brown stylized tree decoration, 7 7/8" dia.
Realized Price: $20,145.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania sgraffito redware charger, ca. 1810, attributed to Conrad Mumbauer, with a tulip and pinwheel decoration, 11 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $11,258
Bucks County, Pennsylvania sgraffito redware charger, ca. 1810, with tulip and pinwheel flower decoration, 12 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $22,515
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with vibrant green and yellow combed slip decoration, 6 1/2" dia.
Realized Price: $21,330
Pennsylvania redware tart plate, 19th c., with yellow and green wavy slip lines crossed into a grid pattern with manganese dots in the centers, 4 1/2" dia.
Realized Price: $18,960
Bucks County, Pennsylvania sgraffito redware charger, ca. 1805, attributed to the pottery of Jacob Funck, Haycock Township, with green tulip decoration on a yellow slip ground, 12 3/8" dia.
Realized Price: $3,555
Pennsylvania redware tart plate, 19th c., with yellow, green, and manganese slip clover decoration, signed Andrew Hedman 1852, 3 3/4" dia., together with the account book of Andrew's son Michael Headman, also a potter. Realized Price: $18,960
Connecticut redware charger, 19th c., with yellow and green slip decoration, 13 3/4" dia. Illustrated in Harold F. Guilland, Early American Folk Pottery, pg. 143.
Realized Price: $2,015
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., attributed to Diehl pottery, with green and brown slip decoration, 6 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $1,126
Pennsylvania redware tart plate, 19th c., with yellow, green, and manganese slip decoration of wavy lines and stars, 4 5/8" dia.
Realized Price: $6,518
Redware pie plate, 19th c., with yellow slip fern decoration, 9 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $1,422
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with yellow slip decoration, 9" dia.
Realized Price: $444
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., attributed to Diehl pottery, with yellow, green, and brown slip tulip decoration, 7 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $17,775
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with yellow slip decoration, 9" dia.
Realized Price: $770
Redware pie plate, 19th c., with combed yellow slip and green splash decoration, 10" dia.
Realized Price: $1,422
Jacob Medinger (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 1856-1932), sgraffito redware shallow dish with a spread winged eagle decoration, 7 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $948
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with brown and yellow slip decoration, 9" dia.
Realized Price: $474
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with yellow slip squiggle line decoration, 9" dia.
Realized Price: $395
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with yellow slip star and fern sprigs, 9 3/4" dia.
Realized Price: $504
Pennsylvania redware pie plate, 19th c., with concentric circle slip decoration, 9 1/4" dia.
Realized Price: $563
Redware shallow bowl, dated 1819, with green and red slip decoration, 10 1/4" dia.
Realized Price: $652
Early English slip decorated redware shallow bowl, ca. 1800, 8" dia.
Realized Price: $5,451
New England redware plate, 19th c., with yellow slip loop design, 9 7/8" dia.
Realized Price: $770
Stahl pottery sgraffito and slip decorated redware plate, dated 1936, 10" dia.
Realized Price: $770
New England slip decorated plate, 19th c., with trailing slip initials, 10 1/4" dia.
Provenance: Harry Hartman.
Realized Price: $593
