A.E. Smith & Sons (American (Connecticut), 1825-1887), circa 1860 and Orson Hart Seymour (1807-1883), circa 1871-1873. Two - four gallon stoneware crocks; the first a cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and applied lug handles decorated in cobalt in large brushed flower; likely a tulip and impressed "4" directly above. Cobalt highlights to the oval impressed maker's mark below mouth. Stamped "A.E. SMITH & SONS, / MANUFACTURERS, / 38 Peck Slip, N.Y.". The second a wide-mouthed stoneware jar or crock with a brown glaze on the interior and exterior with delicate pulled lug handles applied to both sides. Front of jar has hand painted cobalt blue tulips just below the impressed makers mark "O. H. SEYMOUR/ HARTFORD/ 4".
Approximate height of Smith crock 14.25". Approximate height of Seymour crock 11", diameter of mouth 12".
Note: The mark on this churn (38 Peck Slip) was used by the pottery from 1855-1874. Though the factory was located in Norwalk, Connecticut, all of the finished products were stored at the company warehouse at 38 Peck Slip, New York, before being shipped to various customers all over the United States. Orson Hart Seymour was born in New Britain, Connecticut on 1 September 1807. He was a merchant in New Britain, Connecticut, where he was deacon of the South Church for eighteen years. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1864 and became a potter. He first worked with Charles T. Webster in the firm of Webster & Seymour. In 1866 the firm became Seymour Brothers (1866-1871). Henry Phelps died in 1871, Orson Hart Seymour may have worked alone for two years before he organized the company of Seymour & Bosworth in 1873. The partnership of Seymour & Bosworth most likely continued until O. H. Seymour's death in 1883.

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