Author Archives: Brandt Zipp
Mark, Luke, and I will be giving a couple of stoneware lectures to be held next month: On Sunday, April 14, at 2:30pm, Luke and I will be giving a new talk, Excellent Ware: The Harrisburg Stoneware Potters and Their Contemporaries, at the Historical Society of Dauphin County in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Afterwards we will be [...]
As Black History Month 2013 winds down and we approach our March 2, 2013 Auction of American Stoneware & Redware, I thought this was an opportune time to briefly comment on two of the most important antebellum African-American artisans, who just so happened to be potters: Thomas W. Commeraw and David Drake (sometimes called “Dave [...]
We are very pleased to announce that our March 2, 2013 auction will feature the first in what we plan to be a series of lectures on American stoneware and redware! To be presented during the auction preview on Friday, March 1, we will be delivering our lecture entitled, Inferior to None: The Remmeys, First [...]
On March 2, 2013, we will be pleased to offer a stoneware bank made at the well-known Swank Pottery in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The only Swank bank of which we are aware, this rare specimen’s story is enhanced by an inscription around the top, reading, “Rev. L.M. Boyer / 710.” Clearly made as a gift for [...]
The Isaac Boyer redware sugar bowl we will be selling as part of our November 3rd stoneware and redware auction was of a mysterious origin until very recently. (Click here to read our catalog description of this piece.) It seemed to belong to Pennsylvania or elsewhere nearby, but as is always frustrating, Boyer did not [...]
This year marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812, but it also marks the bicentennial of an event that–while perhaps nowhere near as impactful on the history of our nation as that aforementioned conflict–did leave an indelible imprint on the history of American ceramics. It was two hundred years ago that Henry Remmey, a [...]
Mark and I will be appearing at the Gunn Historical Museum in Washington, Connecticut, on Saturday, October 13, at 10 am to give a lecture on Manhattan Stoneware, 1795-1820, with a free appraisal event immediately following. This program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required to attend. [...]