Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters: An Historical Sketch of the Art of Slip-Decoration in the United States
Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1903. M225/300. Hardcover. Tan cloth/boards, Red-clay slipware decoration/title on spine and front cover. No dj. Decorative end papers. 233 pp. with color frontis, 93 bw illus. and 1 tipped-on color plate with tissue guard. VG- contents (Clean and tight; light age toning to page edges); front hinge loosening a bit at reverse of ffep; triangular stain to front cover at bottom of front hinge. Item #154926
A comprehensive study in 14 chapters. Includes information on settlement of Eastern Pennsylvania by the Germans; PA-German dialect and literature; European and American slip decoration; tools and processes for slip decoration; varieties of slip ware; decorative subjects of the PA German potters; tulip as decoration; earthenware utensils; early 19th-C. slip potters of Eastern PA; gift pieces; misc. inscriptions; slip decoration by American potters. Includes a list of illustrations and an index. No. M225 of a limited edition of 300 on this kind of "large" paper.
Price: $200.00