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Object Description
| Brief description | Three earthenware flowerpot saucers attributed to Bernard Klais, Mineral Point, 1858-1883. |
| Object name | Saucers |
| Alternate object name | Flowerpot saucers |
| Maker | Klais, Bernard, 1801-1883 |
| Date | 1858-1883 |
| Materials and techniques | Unglazed wheel-thrown earthenware |
| Original location | Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin |
| Current location | Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin |
| Description | Three unglazed earthenware saucers intended for use with flower pots. |
| History | Mid-nineteenth-century Wisconsin earthenware potters like Bernard Klais of Mineral Point took advantage of the state's rich natural resources. They dug locally for their red and yellow clays, mixed glazes from lead mined in the southwest part of the state, and powered kilns with wood from nearby forests. Like many of Wisconsin's early potters, Klais learned his craft in his homeland--Prussia--before immigrating to America. In 1858 he established a pottery in Mineral Point in the area now known as Shake Rag Alley. Two of his sons, John (b. 1839) and Michael (b. 1855), worked with him to produce utilitarian earthenwares such as flowerpots, food storage vessels and roofing tiles. |
| Sources | Wayne B. Horney, Pottery of the Galena Area (1965); Kenneth Dearolf, Wisconsin Folk Pottery in the Collection of the Kenosha Public Museum (1986)""Bernard Klais Family" transcribed by Michelle Harder, Clark County, Wisconsin Internet Library (accessed April 24, 2007): http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark/data/bios3/3013.htm |
| Related objects | Unglazed earthenware flowerpots attributed to Klais are also part of the Pendarvis collections (object #s 1981.401.486-491): http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,318 |
| Owner | Pendarvis (Wisconsin Historical Society) |
| Object # | 1981.402.455 |
| Rights | (c) 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society--Pendarvis Historic Site. Contact the owner for more information. http://pendarvis.wisconsinhistory.org/ |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | PD018 |
| Digital format | XML |
| Type | Physical object |
| Keywords | Ceramics; Pottery; Earthenware; Redware; Saucer (plate); Plate (dish); Dish (vessel); Flowerpot; Container (receptacle); Furnishings and equipment; Household Accessory |
| Date digitized | 2007-01-22 |
| Date modified | 2009-03-10 |
Description
| Object name | Saucer |
| Dimensions | 1"H x 5 3/8" diam. (2.5 x 13.5 cm) |
| Object # | 1981.402.455.1 |
| Rights | (c) 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society at Pendarvis. Contact the owner for more information. http://pendarvis.wisconsinhistory.org/ |
| Digital identifier | PD018a |
| Digital format | image/jpeg |
| Type | Physical object |
| Date digitized | 2007-01-22 |
| Date modified | 2007-01-22 |
