Paul Cushman (1767-1833), Albany, NY
Date:
1805-1833
Maker:
Paul Cushman (1767-1833), Albany, NY
Dimensions:
8 3/4 H x 8 1/8 Dia. (at waist)
Materials:
Salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt glaze
Marks:
Impressed: P. CUSHMAN
Provenance:
Purchased from Warren F. Hartmann
Credit:
Albany Institute of History & Art Purchase, Rockwell Fund
Accession Number:
1998.55.3
Comments:
Paul Cushman was one of the founders of a regional stoneware industry that spanned the Upper Hudson Valley. When he moved to Albany around 1800, there were few local potters, but his pottery works became a long-lived and successful business that also initiated a century of tremendous growth and expansion in regional stoneware manufacturing.
