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, 1926. Softcover. Buff wraps. 233 pp. 94 bw ills. VG , library bookplate inside cover, o/w nice and tight. Item #26816

A concise and exhaustive investigation into American slipware. Chapters address German Pennsylvanian settlement, their dialect and literature, European origins of slip-decorations, tools and processes, varieties, decorative subjects of the Pennsylvania German potters, earthenware utensils of the Pennsylvania Germans, slip potters of eastern Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th century, gift pieces, unidentified slip-decorated ware found in Pennsylvania, inscriptions, and slip-decorations as practiced by American potters.

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