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Portage – Conant Street Pottery 1861 – 1863

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In June 1860 Isaac Farrar left the Farrar & Russell partnership and nine months later was in full production at a new pottery he had started just a few blocks away on Conant Street that he called “I.N. Farrar & Co”. Their products were very similar to those made at the De Witt Street pottery. The “& Co” was probably Isaac’s father Moses. The pottery closed between June 1863 and February 1864 after two years of operation.

This article is an updated version of an article published in the French language magazine Ceramics in 2019.

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The Dewitt Street Pottery was the first pottery factory opened in Portage by Farrar and Russell. Portage is a city located in central Wisconsin north west of Madison, the state capitol. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet made the two-mile portage at this location from the Fox River to the Wisconsin River in their quest to reach the Mississippi River.

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The Viking Brotherhood Cup

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Susan Frackelton presented an exhibit featuring twelve pieces of salt-glazed art pottery at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition. Most of the pieces have applied embellishments and incising with cobalt highlights. A centerpiece of the exhibit was a large drinking vessel she named "The Viking Brotherhood Cup." A photo of the exhibit was published in an industry newpaper called the "Clay Worker" in an article about the exhibit by Susan’s husband Richard Frackelton.

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