Object Number 1967.1803 A, B

Object Name

Bowl and cover

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Possibly Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States or Germany, Europe or North America

Date

1800-1875

Materials

Earthenware (redware); Lead glaze

Techniques

Thrown, Pierced

Dimensions (inches)

6.732 (H) , 10.236 (W) , 9.252 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

17.1 (H) , 26 (W) , 23.5 (Diam)

Measurement Notes

OW between handles.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Meyer-Heisig, Erich. 1955 Deutsche Bauerntopferei: Geschichte und landschaftiliche Gliederung.
• Somewhat similarly pierced bowl with lower lid and figures on top: fig. 56, caption translating as "Little lidded basket from Kronig in Lower Bavaria," mid 19th century
[Book] Kauffman, Henry J. 1964 Pennsylania Dutch: American Folk Art.
• A covered and a lidless bowls of somewhat similar form and piercing, in redware: p. 129
[Catalogue] Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown PA (sales cat.).
• Other pierced, lidded bowls with twist handles in catalogue for the Pioneer Americana Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Shelley, April 20-21, 2007, p.155.
[Book] Lasansky, Jeannette. 1979 Central Pennsylvania Redware Pottery.
• A very similar pierced, lidded bowl attributed to a "hired itinerant potter" at the Solomon Miller pottery in Adams county, p. 14.