Object lesson: Henry Chapman Mercer and His Moravian Pottery
Object lesson: Henry Chapman Mercer and His Moravian Pottery Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle May 3, 2021 Private collection; photograph by Benjamin Davidson, courtesy of Quittner Antiques, Germantown, New York. It was around 9:30 on the evening of June 24, 1910, when the flames were first spotted. A fire, so went the initial reports, had engulfed a barn just outside town. But when the fire brigade arrived at the scene, they found neither a barn ablaze, nor panicked farmers with their lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance. Mayflower tile designed by Mercer, Moravian Pottery and Til...
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