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Plate

A work made of earthenware.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of earthenware.

Date:

1792

Artist:

Rudolph Drach
American, 1759–after 1814
Bedminster Township, Pennsylvania

About this artwork

Little is known about the potter of this plate, Rudolph Drach. The artist’s grandfather Rudolph Drach was among seventy-seven Palatinate Germans who, along with their families, arrived in Philadelphia on August 29, 1730, and he eventually settled in Bucks County. This plate, made in 1792 according to the incised inscription, was originally in the collection of Edwin Atlee Barber and was illustrated in his Tulip Ware of the Pennsylvania-German Potters (1903). Sgraffito decoration–the act of incising the surface to reveal the clay body beneath–characterizes many of the ceramics created in Bucks County in the Pennsylvania German tradition. Such pottery features exuberant colors and ornamentation through traditional decorative motifs, including the bird, tulip, and star shapes that decorate this plate.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Rudolph Drach

Title

Plate

Place

Pennsylvania (Artist's nationality:)

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1792

Medium

Earthenware

Inscriptions

Incised across upper edge: "rudolf drach hefner in badminster daunschile 1792" [Rudolf Drach. potter, in Bedminster township, 1792]

Dimensions

4.8 ✕ 28.7 × 28.7 cm (1 7/8 ✕ 11 5/16 ✕ 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Field Museum Exchange

Reference Number

1907.122

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