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Several Specimens of Ochres, from Middlesex County state of Massachusetts. They are for the Arts

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.