Archive For May, 2011

A New Pennsylvania Redware Discovery

By Brandt Zipp | May 9, 2011

Finely-made redware spittoon--the only known surviving example by York County, Pennsylvania, potter Philip Sipe.

There were far fewer stoneware manufactories than redware potteries in the United States. While now and then a farmer would build a kiln in his backyard and start making stoneware to supplement his income, the all-around investment in founding a stoneware operation was clearly more substantial than that required to start producing redware. This investment [...]

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