Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters: An Historical Sketch of the Art of Slip-Decoration in the United States
by Barber, Edwin Atlee
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- contents (Clean and tight; light age toning to page edges); front hinge loosening a bit at reverse of ffep; triangular stain
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1903. M225/300. Hardcover. VG- contents (Clean and tight; light age toning to page edges); front hinge loosening a bit at reverse of ffep; triangular stain to front cover at bottom of front hinge.. Tan cloth/boards, Red-clay slipware decoration/title on spine and front cover. No dj. Decorative end papers. 233 pp. with color frontis, 93 bw illus. and 1 tipped-on color plate with tissue guard. A comprehensive study in 14 chapters. Includes information on settlement of Eastern Pennsylvania by the Germans; PA-German dialect and literature; European and American slip decoration; tools and processes for slip decoration; varieties of slip ware; decorative subjects of the PA German potters; tulip as decoration; earthenware utensils; early 19th-C. slip potters of Eastern PA; gift pieces; misc. inscriptions; slip decoration by American potters. Includes a list of illustrations and an index. No. M225 of a limited edition of 300 on this kind of "large" paper.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154926
- Title
- Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters: An Historical Sketch of the Art of Slip-Decoration in the United States
- Author
- Barber, Edwin Atlee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- contents (Clean and tight; light age toning to page edges); front hinge loosening a bit at reverse of ffep; triangular stain
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- M225/300
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- American Decorative Arts; Pennsylvania German Slip Ware; Tulip Ware; Pennsylvania German Potters ; Tulip Ware; Pennsylvania German Slip Ware ; ;
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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