EMANUEL SUTER (ATTRIBUTED), ROCKINGHAM CO., VA EARTH

EMANUEL SUTER (ATTRIBUTED), ROCKINGHAM CO., VA EARTHENWARE VASE, baluster form with a squared rim and pronounced flared foot, later green paint over a light slip wash. Attributed to Emanuel Suter, New Erection Pottery. 1870-1890. 10 1/4" h, 4 3/4" dia rim, 5 1/4" dia foot.
Reference: Published Evans/Suter, p. 86, fig. 157.
See Kaufman, {{Heatwole and Suter Pottery}}, p. 42, fig. 70 for the mate to this vase.
Provenance: Collection of Elizabeth and Frank Suter. Lillie H. Suter Showalter, daughter of Emanuel Suter. Exhibited: Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, Dayton, VA, 2004, "A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware - The Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery," #157.
Note: This vase is one of a pair which descended in the Suter family, both of which bear the later green paint. The other example was included in the 1978 EMC Heatwole and Suter pottery exhibit referenced above, and belonged to Miss Katie E. Wenger.

Several outer rim chips which occurred before the later paint was applied, light flaking to paint