John Burrison notes stoneware chamber pots excavated from the Jesse Long
Pottery in Georgia (Burrison 1983:140).  The illustrated sherd, ca. 1860s,
is alkaline glazed (interior and exterior).
 
Chamber pots made by West Virginia potter Alexander Conrad, ca. 1880, and
illuatrated in Schaltenbrand (1996:173) a gray bodied salt glazed
stoneware. One of the illustrated examples in Schaltenbrand's book is
undecorated and the second has the pottery's town stencilled in blue cobalt
on the exterior.
 
The stoneware industry of Southwestern Pennsylvania has been extensively
documented and my cursory return to the literature to look for some cites
failed to yield any historical or folklife sources for chamberpots made by
stoneware potters and their redware predecessors.
 
References
 
Burrison, John A.
1983Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery. Athens, Ga.:
University of Georgia Press.
 
Schaltenbrand, Phil
1995Stoneware of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of
Pittsburgh Press.
 
 
David S. Rotenstein, Ph.D.
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