Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 8, 1819
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 100
Additional Source Text:
"The clay from a stratum of about 4 feet in thickness over the logs that are perfectly carbonised, found about 4 miles up the Delaware on the Jersey side."
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.
