Chicken caster

• 1810-1830

• Attributed to the Salem pottery. For the mold used to produce this object, see John Bivins, Jr., The Moravian Potters in North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press for Old Salem, Inc., 1972), p. 195, fig. 190. For an identical caster, see Johanna Brown, “Tradition and Adaptation in Moravian Press-Molded Earthenware,” in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter and Luke Beckerdite (Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2009), p. 124, fig.38.