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  2. American stoneware - Wikipedia

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    By 1820, stoneware was being produced in virtually every American urban center, with potters from Baltimore, Maryland, in particular raising the craft to its pinnacle. [citation needed] While salt-glazing is the typical glaze technique seen on American Stoneware, other glaze methods were employed.

  3. Jerry Dolyn Brown - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Dolyn Brown (November 9, 1942 – March 4, 2016) was an American folk artist and traditional stoneware pottery maker who lived and worked in Hamilton, Alabama.He was a 1992 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts [1] [2] and a 2003 recipient of the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. [3]

  4. David Drake (potter) - Wikipedia

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    Alkaline glaze stoneware, 1857. David Drake (c. 1800 – c. 1870s), also known as "Dave Pottery" and "Dave the Potter," was an American potter and enslaved African American who lived in Edgefield, South Carolina. Drake lived and worked in Edgefield for almost all his life. [1] Drake produced alkaline-glazed stoneware jugs between the 1820s and ...

  5. Adam Weitsman - Wikipedia

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    He developed an interest in art collecting early in life after his father and grandfather discovered two early American stoneware bottles during an excavation project in their scrap yard in 1980. [3] Weitsman began collecting the 19th-century stoneware and owned 60 pieces by 1982. [2] In 1986, Weitsman graduated from Owego Free Academy.

  6. Johann George Pfaltzgraff - Wikipedia

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    Johann George Pfaltzgraff (or Pfaltzgraf; May 5, 1808 – January 7, 1873) was a German-American potter and businessman. He is recognized as the first potter in the Pfaltzgraff family of potters in the United States. Pfaltzgraff Pottery Co. is known as the oldest pottery company in the USA. Lifetime Brands purchased the business in 2005.

  7. Samuel A. Weller - Wikipedia

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    In 1893 Weller attended the Chicago World's Fair, where he saw a line of decorative art pottery developed by a competitor, Lonhuda Pottery of Steubenville, Ohio. [5] The name "Lonhuda" was a combination of the first letters of three partners' surnames: William A. Long, who had been a Steubenville druggist; and two investors, W.H Hunter, editor of the Steubenville Daily Gazette, and Alfred Day ...

  8. Henry Chapman Mercer - Wikipedia

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    Henry Chapman Mercer (June 24, 1856 – March 9, 1930) [1] was an American archeologist, artifact collector, tile-maker, and designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: Fonthill, his home; the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works; and the Mercer Museum.

  9. Category:Stoneware - Wikipedia

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