Rabbit Hunt Pottery Pitcher

Any help with the signature?

 

Middle name Gerald?

 

Can't decipher the first word, but the second word might be 'ware'.

I can only find this octagon shape in the brown glaze. Yours has the hanging killed game animals, does it have the eagle spout?

Here are some links.

Rockingham Pottery; Harker & Taylor?, Pitcher, Hound Handled, Game & Spread Wing Eagle.
A Rockingham pottery pitcher, possibly Harker, Taylor & Co, East Liverpool, Ohio, hound handled, game and spread wing eagle on spout.
http://www.prices4antiques.com/Rock...-Handled-Game-Spread-Wing-Eagle-E8862933.html

Google Books: hound handle eagle spout pitcher
https://books.google.com/books?id=e7yCnptpVuUC&pg=PA525&lpg=PA525&dq=hound+handle+eagle+spout+pitcher&source=bl&ots=3TQ0rbzHBS&sig=fSvXL9BJpTyPo_hNtDTb2f2ckhY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7w-rsptDVAhUo0YMKHQ0vA2kQ6AEIWzAP#v=onepage&q=hound handle eagle spout pitcher&f=false

https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Dargate/18/315818/H0089-L26349047.jpg
Description: ROCKINGHAM STYLE HOUND HANDLE GAME PITCHER. (2nd half 19th c.) Flint and Rockingham glaze hound handle pitcher, running brown glaze on tan ground, molded side with hanging game, eagle with spread wings under spout, hound handle, octagonal base, attributed to Taylor and Speeler, Trenton, New Jersey or Great Bach, Bennington. Size: 10 1/2''H, 10 1/2''W at spout.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...nd-handle-game-pitcher.-2nd-2349-c-5a5dd27415

https://images.skinnerinc.com/full/475/1031475_view_02.jpg
Eleven Mostly Rockingham-glazed Pitchers
Auction Discovery - Mar 13, 2014
Location:Marlborough
Lot:923 Sold for:$369
https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2712M/lots/923

 

Yes, but how many of those would scratch their names into the bottom? I'm voting for hobbyist.

 

No eagle on the spout.
The last word does look like "Ware". Would a hobbyist use it in his signature?

 

If his/her surname was Ware, sure.

 

I haven't fully checked this out, but here's something for you to investigate.
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/...tudios_1_636dbabd800051b8f6856ae00ba1e25b.jpg
Frank Engle Studios Englecraft Ware
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/unusual-frank-engle-studios-1759922721

 

Thanks a lot. They have the eagle on the amber version. I'll try to research further.

 

amazing research Lauragarnet, that sure looks like it

 

By the way, I do have the eagle on mine but can't be seen clearly because of this type of glaze.
Seems like Frank Engle was quite prolific:
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2461

 

Yay! I was hoping you'd say that eventually. Glad the eagle is there under all that drippy glaze.

 

Need a little more research before attributing to Frank Engle: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vhtf-englecraft-ware-brunswick-ga-1858717982

 

I was thinking about that. Seems like Frank Engle did mostly animal figurines and they are marked with Frank Engle (Studios).
Also, he most likely did original, one of a kind pieces and is unlikely to make a pitcher with already existing design.
Not a lot of info about Alfred V. Lawton either but I'll go with him when describing the piece.
I was almost done with uploding the listing with Frank Engle attribution.

 

I'm glad you two got to the bottom of this. Good sleuthing!

I looked in the index of Lehner's and none of the names are in there. Not Frank Engle Studios, not Englecraft Ware - Brunswick Ga or Alfred V. Lawton.

I'll scribble this in the margins of the index and also save to my pottery files for future reference.

 

Englecraft Ware is Alfred Lawton, ceramicist. This is how he signed pieces.