PENLAND'S POTTERY Buncombe County NC Vase/Jar ca.1920s

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William Marion Penland (born 1868 – died 1945) was the son of the master potter Joseph S. Penland and the grandson of John Penland. It was John Penland’s father Willam W. Penland who had hired potters from the Edgefield district in South Carolina back in the mid-1800’s to work at what became the Penland-Stone Pottery in the Candler area of Buncombe County, NC (Edward Stone was one of the Edgefield potters who came to work for William W. Penland). Jumping ahead to the 1890’s, William Marion Penland married Susan Stone, bringing the Stone and Penland families even closer together, and the pottery would ultimately come to be known as Penland’s Pottery. When I first glanced at the two-handled vase or jar being offered at auction today, I was expecting to find that it had been produced by Oscar Bachelder of Luther, NC (in Buncombe County, NC near Asheville). It has the same high gloss mirror-like Albany slip glaze, graceful shape, and slender handles that one would expect to find on a Bachelder piece. A quick look at the base, however, revealed the stamp reading “PENLAND’S POTTERY CANDLER, N.C.” (see photo). Candler and Luther are only a few miles apart, and Oscar Bachelder and William Marion Penland were producing pottery at the same time, so a bit of cross-fertilization is perhaps not surprising. The Penland’s Pottery stamp is a scarce read more

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