Sgraffito Plate or Deep Dish with Double-Headed Eagle17922 1/4 × 12 5/8" diam.Glazed red earthenwareGift of Ralph Esmerian2005.8.240Round dish with curved circumference with slip and sgraffito decoration of double-headed eagle with spread tail and heart motif center of body. Flanked by smaller bird on each side - peacock with head turned toward tail, floral motifs1544983336George HubenerContainersThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.In bowl incised in slip, translation: "From the earth with his great skill/The potter makes what he will/The man with skills is highly lauded/But he without them is befrauded"http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24455United StatesPennsylvaniaThree Dimensional WorksThe words that master potter George Hubener inscribed around the circumference of this deep dish perfectly express the level of excellence that can be attained only through a complete sympathy with one’s material of creation. Incised through the wet slip and into the red clay body are words in German that translate as: “1792 out of the Earth with understanding The Potter makes everything. He who can make something is esteemed. The unskilled no one regards.” Above the image Hubener has further written: “This is a Double-Headed eagle.”
Hubener 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, “Sgraffito Plate or Deep Dish with Double-Headed Eagle,” exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014. Round dish with curved circumference with slip and sgraffito decoration of double-headed eagle with spread tail and heart motif center of body. Flanked by smaller bird on each side - peacock with head turned toward tail, floral motifsThe words that master potter George Hubener inscribed around the circumference of this deep dish perfectly express the level of excellence that can be attained only through a complete sympathy with one’s material of creation. Incised through the wet slip and into the red clay body are words in German that translate as: “1792 out of the Earth with understanding The Potter makes everything. He who can make something is esteemed. The unskilled no one regards.” Above the image Hubener has further written: “This is a Double-Headed eagle.”
Hubener 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, “Sgraffito Plate or Deep Dish with Double-Headed Eagle,” exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgutilitarianpotterysgraffitoslipwareplateredwarehttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24455http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24455http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2445517921792 2005 8 24 The words that master potter George Hubener inscribed around the circumference of this deep dish perfectly express the level of excellence that can be attained only through a complete sympathy with one’s material of creation. Incised through the wet slip and into the red clay body are words in German that translate as: “1792 out of the Earth with understanding The Potter makes everything. He who can make something is esteemed. The unskilled no one regards.” Above the image Hubener has further written: “This is a Double-Headed eagle.”
Hubener 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, “Sgraffito Plate or Deep Dish with Double-Headed Eagle,” exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014. Round dish with curved circumference with slip and sgraffito decoration of double-headed eagle with spread tail and heart motif center of body. Flanked by smaller bird on each side - peacock with head turned toward tail, floral motifsThe words that master potter George Hubener inscribed around the circumference of this deep dish perfectly express the level of excellence that can be attained only through a complete sympathy with one’s material of creation. Incised through the wet slip and into the red clay body are words in German that translate as: “1792 out of the Earth with understanding The Potter makes everything. He who can make something is esteemed. The unskilled no one regards.” Above the image Hubener has further written: “This is a Double-Headed eagle.”
Hubener 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, “Sgraffito Plate or Deep Dish with Double-Headed Eagle,” exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgutilitarianpotterysgraffitoslipwareplateredware