Collection Highlights
Invitation to Erie Canal Celebration
Date:
1825
Object Number:
PR.221.12
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Pot
Object Number:
1945.468
Date:
1845-1852
Medium:
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 12 1/2 in. ( 30.5 x 31.8 cm )
Marks:
impressed: beneath rim: "ADAM CAIRE/POKEEPSIE, N. Y."
Description:
Salt-glazed stoneware two-handled crock decorated with an image of a cobalt blue chicken feeding on front, with impressed maker's mark beneath front rim.
Gallery Label:
Potter Adam Caire served a six-year apprenticeship before entering the business. After a twenty-year partnership with Philip Riedinger, Adam Caire ran his own substantial manufactory for nearly twenty years.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplanck
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
