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He who can make something is esteemed. The unskilled no one regards.\u201d Above the image Hubener has further written: \u201cThis is a Double-Headed eagle.\u201dHubener may have apprenticed with Moravian potter John Ludwig Huebner or John George Sissholtz. His plates are fashioned in a traditional Continental form of a deep dish and are wheel-thrown, resulting in deep angular walls, a flat bottom, and a thick, out-turned rolled rim. Most of his surviving wares are inscribed with dates from 1786 to 1793; this example is a tour de force of traditional Southern German motifs: the double-headed eagle, a peacock, a heart, and tulips. Hubener established his own pottery, but after 1797 he is documented in Chester County as a mill owner rather than a potter.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cSgraffito Plate or Deep Dish with Double-Headed Eagle,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. 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Incised through the wet slip and into the red clay body are words in German that translate as: \u201c1792 out of the Earth with understanding The Potter makes everything. He who can make something is esteemed. The unskilled no one regards.\u201d Above the image Hubener has further written: \u201cThis is a Double-Headed eagle.\u201dHubener may have apprenticed with Moravian potter John Ludwig Huebner or John George Sissholtz. His plates are fashioned in a traditional Continental form of a deep dish and are wheel-thrown, resulting in deep angular walls, a flat bottom, and a thick, out-turned rolled rim. Most of his surviving wares are inscribed with dates from 1786 to 1793; this example is a tour de force of traditional Southern German motifs: the double-headed eagle, a peacock, a heart, and tulips. Hubener established his own pottery, but after 1797 he is documented in Chester County as a mill owner rather than a potter.Stacy C. 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