Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 29, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 36
Additional Source Text:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 4 Jan 1809 adds: "Several specimens of fine colored Ocres (yellow, brown, dove colored and black) and black flint."
The donor was "of Boston."
Notes:
In 1820 Jacob Felt (1786-1826) bought 50 tons of fire clay for brickmaking from Woodbridge, N.J. Jennie J. Young, The Ceramic Art: A Compendium of the History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain [London, 1879], p. 448.
