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On Display: House - Kershner Bake House
Tile (Roof tile)
1755-1800
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Wernesville; Pennsylvania; Berks; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Earthenware (redware)
Museum Object Number
1978.0124.001
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of the Pennsylvania German Study Group
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Object Number
1978.0124.001
Object Name
Tile (Roof tile)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Wernesville; Pennsylvania; Berks; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Origin Notes
One of the tiles used to roof the Kershner House (built 1755), Wernersville PA.
Date
1755-1800
Materials
- Earthenware (redware)
Techniques
- Slab-constructed
Dimensions (inches)
6.496 (W) x 1.772 (D) x 15.039 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
16.5 (W) x 4.5 (D) x 38.2 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Richman, Irwin. 2001 Pennsylvania German Arts: More than Hearts, Parrots, and Tulips.
• View of redware roof-tiled bake oven roof: p. 97, noting rain channels made by ziegler's (tile-maker's) fingers. Several so-tiled 18th C. roofs survive in Oley Valley of Berks County.Catalogue: Garvan, Beatrice B. & Hummel, Charles F. 1982 The Pennsylvania Germans: a celebration of their arts, 1683-1850. An exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Redware tiles shown in plate 59.Article: Roeber, Catharine Christie Dann. 2011 Seeing Red: Southeastern Pennsylvania Earthenware from Winterthur. Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show (catalogue). pp. 5-11.
• Published on p. 10, fig. 13.