Wheel-thrown redware milk pan has outwardly flaring sides, slightly domed bottom and slip decoration on ground color of orange-brown. Decorated with yellow concentric rings on interior wall and base, widely undulating black slip trail on interior side wall and large black slip trail flower in center of interior base. Glazed on interior only.
Body intact but very significant surface losses to interior glaze and slip decoration, especially at interior bottom. Wear to exterior surfaces with small chips, soil and fire-darkened areas on bottom.
Use of the slip cup and other tools of the art, as deomstrated at the Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, enable today's potters to create redware pottery in the traditional manner of early Pennsylvania Dutch settlers in lancasr County, Pennsylvania.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Ned Foltz demonstrates the delicate technique of sgraffito, or scratching a design with a stylus into slip covered redware. Ned is just one of 200 craftsmen who will be demonstrating their 18th and 19th century skills at this summer's 41st Annual Kutztown Folk Festival.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
