530 POTTERY AND PORCELALN
Alle sch~ne Junfern hat Gott Erschafen
Die sein vor die Hefner awer nicht vtir die Pfaffen
2 xten Ocdober Anno 1793-"
All beautiful maidens hath God created.
They are for the potter but not for the priests.
This piece was probably made for a marriage gift to some
brother of the craft, the date of the happy event being the
21St Of October, 1793. The delineation furnishes us with
a glimpse of the fashions of that period in the German
settlements of Pennsylvania. The tall hats of the bride
and groom ; the arrangement of the lady's hair in a net,
and her flowered gown; the queue and ruffled shirt front,
long-tailed coat and knee-breeches of the groom, sur-
rounded by foliage and blossoms of flowers in red and
green, with turtle-doves strutting beneath, present a quaint
picture of more than a century ago (Ill. 279).
Georg Haibener was potting in M\ontgomery County,
Pa., for at least a period of thirteen years, from 1785 to
1798, as we learn from examples of his work bearing dates
between these extremes. A large circular meat, or vege-
table, dish shows in the centre an incised device of a two-
headed bird, which at first sight might be taken for the
royal double eagle in the arms of Prussia, but is in reality
intended to represent a pair of doves with united bodies
forming a single heart, typical of love and union (Ill. 280).
In the space above is the date of manufacture, 1786, while
at the sides are large tulips and the initials of the maker,
G. H. Around the rim is incised the following:
"Cadarina Raederin Ihre Schussel,-
Aus der ehrt mit verstant
Macht der Haefner aller Hand."