Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . 15. Sgraffito Pie Plate (11% inches). With Human Figures. Made by David Spinner, about 1800. Museum No. 16,17. Two Sgraffito Pie Plates(11%inches). Shewing continuous Scene of a Deer Chase. By David Spinner, about 1H>. Museum Nos. 00-74, 76. 15 gowns and provincial headgear, as models for the aristocraticdames of the fashionable city, while the British officers were rep-resented in red and green uniforms, with whom the fiddler wassupposed to be of equal rank and importance. It is amusin
Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . 15. Sgraffito Pie Plate (11% inches). With Human Figures. Made by David Spinner, about 1800. Museum No. 16,17. Two Sgraffito Pie Plates(11%inches). Shewing continuous Scene of a Deer Chase. By David Spinner, about 1H>. Museum Nos. 00-74, 76. 15 gowns and provincial headgear, as models for the aristocraticdames of the fashionable city, while the British officers were rep-resented in red and green uniforms, with whom the fiddler wassupposed to be of equal rank and importance. It is amusing tosee the stately minuet thus portrayed on a homely pie dish andaccompanied by an inscribed sentiment which bears as little rela-tion to the subject as it does to polite literature (see Frontispiece). David Spinner was one of the foremost potters of Bucks county,Pa. We have not been able to learn when his pottery was estab-lished, but it must have been in existence previous to the begin-ning of the century which has just come to a close, since authenti-cated examples of his ware are known which bear dates as earlyas 1801. The old pottery was situated on Willow Creek, in Milfordtownship, near the line
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