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Specimens of Stone ware, manufactured at Mr. Green's Stone ware manufactory in Phila. made of the Billingsport [N.J.] clay

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 22, 1808

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 30

Notes:

Branch Green (d. 1847), a stoneware potter from Troy, N.Y., had moved to New Jersey by 1805 and in 1809 opened a stoneware manufactory in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. He sold it in 1827 for $3,800 and later was a dealer in drygoods. Susan H. Myers, Handcraft to Industry: Philadelphia Ceramics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (Washington, D.C., 1980), pp. 61-62.