About This Artwork

Rudolph Drach
American, 1759-after 1814

Plate, 1792

Redware
28.7 x 4.8 cm (11 5/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
incised inscription across upper edge: "rudolf drach hefner in badminster daunschile 1792" (Rudolf Drach. potter, in Bedminster township, 1792)
Field Museum Exchange, 1907.122

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts 1683-1850," October 17, 1982-January 9, 1983; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 5-May 15, 1983; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, July 2-September 3, 1983; Art Institute, December 10, 1983-January 29, 1984, cat. 3.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 5.

Edwin Atlee Barber, "Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania German Potters," Philadelphia, 1903, pp. 117-8, fig. 33 (ill.)