Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 4, 1809
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 39
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.
