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Visual display of the Smoking pipe mold

Smoking pipe mold

Attributed to the Salem pottery during Heinrich Schaffner’s tenure as master. For comparable pipes, see Michael O. Hartley, “Salem Pottery after 1834: Heinrich Schaffner and Daniel Krause,” in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter and Luke Beckerdite (Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2010), p. 157, figs, 33-4.

Attributed name: Salem pottery
Date: 1835-1875
Collections: North Carolina Earthenware Collection; Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Description of Original: Plaster
Subjects: Moravian tradition; Plaster mold; Salem (Forsyth County), North Carolina
Location of Original: Old Salem Museums & Gardens
For Staff: METS