Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . 39. Slip-Decorated Pie Plate (13^ inches). White Slip Beaten in. By Benjamin Bergey, about 1830. Museum No. 40. Slip-Decoeateh Dish (15 inches). Officer on Horseback. Made by Benjamin Bergey, 1838. Museum No. 02-14. 29 As a rule, the ornamental slip-traced pieces were intended fordecoration rather than for service, as the raised tracings would belikely to chip off when subjected to heat or hard usage. Theabove-described examples, however, show signs of considerableuse, having been made in
Lead glazed potteryPart first (common clays): plain glazed, sgraffito and slip-decorated wares . 39. Slip-Decorated Pie Plate (13^ inches). White Slip Beaten in. By Benjamin Bergey, about 1830. Museum No. 40. Slip-Decoeateh Dish (15 inches). Officer on Horseback. Made by Benjamin Bergey, 1838. Museum No. 02-14. 29 As a rule, the ornamental slip-traced pieces were intended fordecoration rather than for service, as the raised tracings would belikely to chip off when subjected to heat or hard usage. Theabove-described examples, however, show signs of considerableuse, having been made in the same manner as the ordinary utili-tarian pie plates, which are decorated with simple curved andzigzag lines. The exhibit of sgraffito and slip-decorated earthenware in thisMuseum from the Pennsylvania-German potteries, forming a por-tion of the John T. Morris collection, is the most important of itskind in existence. It consists of 150 examples, covering the periodfrom about 1750 to 1850, after which the manufacture practicallyceased. Slip decoration in its primitive stages is now a lost art in theUnited States. It nourished, principally in Pennsylvania, fornearly a century and a half. Its decadence co
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