The antiques world likes nothing so much as a discovery, particularly one that upends longstanding scholarship. Three years after Brandt Zipp, partner at Crocker Farm auction house in Sparks, Md., discovered the true identity of African American stoneware potter Thomas Commeraw, he and ceramics scholar and dealer Rob Hunter have determined that some face jugs attributed to John Wesley were made, not by a white potter in Pennsylvania, but by an enslaved Black potter in South Carolina.
