Browse Items (43 total)

  • Collection: Historic Bethabara Park Archaeology Collection

Smooth Pipe

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Brown ware pipe with a large section of the bowl broken and missing. The pipe body is made of white clay and is covered with a manganese lead glaze, producing a dark brown, slightly speckled, glossy finish.

This is one of Gottfried Aust's smooth,…

Fluted Anthropomorphic Pipe Fragment

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This fluted anthropomorphic pipe fragment appears to have been fired one time. It appears to have had copper oxide glaze applied, and possibly a brown or clear glaze applied. It appears as if the pipe may have broken prior to the second firing since…

Large Triangular Trivet

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Trivets were a type of kiln furniture used to support glazed objects. Trivets were made three ways in Bethabara. They could be molded by hand like this one, turned on a potter’s wheel and shaped with a knife, or made with a plaster press mold.

An…

Round Trivet

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Trivets were a type of kiln furniture used to support glazed objects. Trivets were made three ways in Bethabara. They could be turned on a potter’s wheel and shaped with a knife like this one, molded by hand, or made with a plaster press mold.

An…

John & Joseph Butner Maker Mark

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This very unique pottery shard is marked with a stamp, “JOHN & JOS. BUTNER.” It is the base of an unknown redware object. The exterior is unglazed, while the interior has the remains of dark brown glaze.

John Butner took over the Bethabara…

Fluted Anthropomorphic Pipe

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This unglazed, fluted anthropomorphic pipe is made of mottled reddish-buff and white clay formed in a pipe press, using a brass pipe mold.

The pipe features a fluted body with a human face on the bottom front of the bowl. This example has wide…

Fluted Anthropomorphic Pipe

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This glazed, fluted anthropomorphic pipe is made of reddish-buff colored clay formed in a pipe press, using a brass pipe mold.

The pipe features a fluted body with a human face on the bottom front of the bowl. Unlike the earlier pipes, this…

Fluted Anthropomorphic Pipe

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This unglazed, fluted anthropomorphic pipe is made of white clay formed in a pipe press, using a brass pipe mold.

The pipe features a fluted body with a human face on the bottom front of the bowl. This example has wide flutes on the bowl and stem.…

Fluted Pipe

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This unglazed, fluted is made of white clay formed in a pipe press, using a brass pipe mold. It features a fluted body with small flourishes between the widely spaced flutes.

This pipe was recovered from the foundation of 31 FS 6, the…

Tortoise Shell Plate

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In 1771, William Ellis arrived in Bethabara and offered to teach Gottfried Aust how to make English-style “Queensware” and “Tortoise-shell” pottery in exchange for clothing and lodging. Ellis had been the superintendent of John Bartlam’s China…