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Four Specimens of Delph ware

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

October 20, 1817

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 88

Additional Source Text:

"Manufactured at the donors Pottery entirely of domestic materials and by Native Citizens."

Notes:

A lengthy description of the Philadelphia earthenware factory of David G. Seixas (1788–1864) appeared in Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore), new ser. 1, no. 10 (1 Nov 1817): 149-150

Seixas was also the founder of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.