Important Morgantown, West Virginia two gallon stoneware jar, ca. 1860, with dark cobalt decoration of a camel and a cow under a tree with a milkmaid figure, rouletted band on shoulder, having an unusual impressed stamp of opposing figures at a table, stamped Morgantown Pottery below capacity mark, 13" h. For a detailed discussion of stoneware produced at the Thompson Pottery see Hunter (ed.) - Ceramics in America 2011, pp. 111-137, The Stoneware Years of the Thompson Potters of Morgantown, West Virginia, by Richard Duez and Don Horvath with Brenda Hornsby Heindl. See ibid., p. 127, fig. 40, top right for rouletted design and capacity mark.