Teacup and saucer
Classification:
Date:
1800-1825
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Overall (saucer): 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. (2.2 x 12.1 cm)
Overall (teacup): 1 5/8 x 3 x 2 1/2 in. (4.1 x 7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Description:
Porcelain cup and saucer with applied floral sprigs enamelled blue and green; enamelled insects and floral sprigs. Saucers each have six gilded stump legs.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Catherine Augusta DePeyster
Object Number:
1911.72ab
Marks:
painted: in green enamel :"33"; also crossed lines mark
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
30402
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bowl
Classification:
Date:
1900-1925
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. ( 6.4 x 23.2 cm )
Description:
Hand-molded redware bowl with flaring rim and a highly burnished unglazed surface; obverse hand painted in white pigment with a central geometric eagle and geometric borders with scallops and step motif.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Brewster Marwick
Object Number:
1938.248
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
30378
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1830
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. ( 4.4 x 31.1 cm )
Description:
Drape molded plate with cabled rim and center impressed with a circular medallion with a raised image of a man's head surrounded by a border studded with dots (or possibly, rosettes); interior coated with slip under lead glaze.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1472
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
30376
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1870-1890
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. ( 4.4 x 24.8 cm )
Description:
Drape-molded redware plate with serrated edge; obverse decorated with large slip-trailed inscription under lead glaze.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1474
Marks:
written: in slip on plate: "S. Singer/Potter"
Gallery Label:
Simon Singer (d. 1894), an immigrant from Baden, Germany, worked in New York as a brickmaker before buying a pottery in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Redware potters seldom marked their wares and very rarely inscribed their name and trade prominently on the front.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
30375
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate mold
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1824
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. ( 6.4 x 32.7 cm )
Description:
Redware plate mold with reinforced rim; surface partially blackened; unglazed.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1468
Marks:
incised: in script on obverse: "Thos Wickersham / March 2nd 1824"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
30374
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bowl
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1830
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 16 3/8 in. ( 7.6 x 41.6 cm )
Description:
Wide-base redware bowl with slipped interior (now greenish-yellow) and showing significant wear with black patches in center; glazed obverse stops at rim; slightly misshapen.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1467
Gallery Label:
This dish, which was probably used for skimming milk, was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
30372
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Platter
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. ( 5.7 x 42.5 x 31.4 cm )
Description:
Drape-molded rectangular platter or loaf dish, obverse with slip-trailed decoration and inscription under lead glaze.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1464
Marks:
written: in script in slip on obverse: "Cheap./and Good"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
30370
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Foot bath
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1849-1858
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
overall: 7 5/8 x 16 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.
Description:
Molded yellowware foot bath, ovoid basin with fourteen fluted sides, footed with two angular handles with gadrooned termini; mottled brown glaze (Rockingham) with additional streaks of blue/green.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.667
Marks:
impressed: on base in oval: "Lyman Fenton & Co./Fentons/ENAMEL/PATENTED./1849/BENNINGTON Vt."; "U"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
30363
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1932
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/8 x 8 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. ( 2.2 x 21.3 x 21.3 cm )
Description:
Roughly square earthenware plate with slightly serpentine sides and scalloped corners; center with green transfer-printed image of battlefield with a line of soldiers on horseback on either side (those on the right bearing the American flag) and a solitary figure on horseback at the center; flower and scroll pattern on rim.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock
Object Number:
1957.14j
Marks:
transfer printed: on obverse, below central image: "Surrender of Cornwallis"
transfer printed: on reverse: "George Washington / Bicentenary / Memorial / Plates / 1732-1932 / First in War / First in Peace / First in the Hearts of His Countrymen" and "Crow
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1932
eMuseum Object ID:
30362
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Washbowl and pitcher
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1849-1858
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Bowl: 4 1/8 x 13 1/2 in. ( 10.5 x 34.3 cm )
Pitcher: 12 3/8 x 8 x 6 1/2 in. ( 31.4 x 20.3 x 16.5 cm )
Description:
Molded yellowware twelve-sided footed bowl and octagonal panelled pitcher, footed, with high spout and angular handle; both with orange streaks on mottled brown glaze (Rockingham); pitcher with blue as well.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.646ab
Marks:
impressed: on base of each: "Lyman Fenton & Co. / Fenton's / ENAMEL / PATENTED. / 1849 / BENNINGTON Vt"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
30360
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pages
