EMANUEL SUTER ATTRIBUTED, ROCKINGHAM CO., SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA STONEWARE FLOWER POT, salt-glazed, "8" within a square frame mark to medial body, slight conical form with atypical wide bold rim, and punched drain hole to base. Probably Emanuel Suter (1833-1902), New Erection Pottery (1866-1890), west of Harrisonburg, VA. 1870-1890. 8 1/8" H, 9 1/4" D rim.
Published: Evans/Suter - A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware, p. 81, fig. 140.
Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Scott H. Suter, Bridgewater, VA.
Exhibited: Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, Dayton, VA, 2004, "A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware - The Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery," #140.
Catalogue Note: According to Evans/Suter, flower pots were a huge part of Suter's production at his New Erection site, ranging in size from 1" to 12" in diameter. In March of 1886 he built a small kiln strictly to burn flower pots. On September 3, 1886, he began to fill an order for 20,000 flower pots from a Staunton, VA merchant. Despite the vast numbers of flower pots produced by Suter, very few examples survive to this day.

Flake to rim, otherwise undamaged.