Archive For The “New York Stoneware” Category
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 [...]
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. [...]
About ten days ago, I received an email from a member of a Norwegian dive team. He, along with his fellow divers, had found a jug made by Thomas Commeraw in coastal waters in southeast Norway. This was a great find for their team, and a newsworthy story for the town of Farsund, but it [...]
For those of you who may have missed it, my Commeraw project and the two examples of Commeraw’s pottery that we will be selling on the 29th were both featured in today’s issue of The New York Times. Click here to read the article. Those who have kept up with my various updates have seen [...]
Brandt’s Interview on “Artisan Ancestors”: Researching American Stoneware, Thomas Commeraw, and More
Jon Kay, the director of Traditional Arts Indiana, recently launched a great new podcast called Artisan Ancestors. Jon describes it as a “podcast where I explore ways to research and understand the past,” and he does just that, talking to professors, researchers, authors, and scholars about American decorative arts. A couple of weeks ago, Jon [...]
Today I posted the following on my website, www.commeraw.com, but I just wanted to share this with everyone here, as well: I could not be happier to see Thomas Commeraw’s name, and true identity, in a New York newspaper for the first time in almost two hundred years. He and the Commeraw Project were both [...]