Maryland Historical Ceramics

Based on their firing temperatures and the clays used in their manufacture ceramics are divided into three basic categories earthenwares and stonewares and porcelains.
Maryland historical ceramics. Jefferson patterson park museum jppm is a place full of secrets waiting to be unearthed. Aberdeen is a city located in harford county maryland united states 26 miles 42 km northeast of baltimore. Revised edition wall robert d. A preliminary archaeological data base for the maryland coal region.
And haria ballard brothers. Support our artisans and exhibitors even though the boonsboro historical society has cancelled the 49th annual boonesborough days set for september due to covid 19 you can still support our local artisans. Some of his work is marked s. The population was 14 959 at the 2010 united states census aberdeen is the largest municipality in harford county.
Decals remained the most common technique for decorating ceramics well into the 1950s majewski and o brien 1987 147. Initially they experimented with different manufacturing techniques. Post colonial ceramics by patricia samford and george l. Stanley ballard was an alfred university graduate in ceramics in 1939 who produced pottery in the mid century modern style.
Whether you come to hike our miles of trails explore our visitor center full of interactive exhibits or enjoy one of our educational programs or events you will leave with a greater appreciation for the land and the people who once lived here. In maryland indians started making unglazed low fired pottery a little over 3000 years ago. Many new varieties of pottery were introduced to maryland between the american revolution and the late 19th century. Ballard but paper labels identifying the pottery as ballard hand made and a product of vermont craftsmanship are usually his work ballard was an old vermont family of potters beginning with orin alfred k.
Geography and geology of maryland. Historic ceramic types how to cite this website. Aberdeen is part of the baltimore towson metropolitan statistical area msa which is the 20th largest united states metropolitan area. Decal decorated ceramics first appeared in the sears roebuck and company catalogue in 1902 sears roebuck and company 1902.
Report on file at the maryland historical trust crownsville md. Our customizable line of precision ceramics these parts are used in both the thermal and electrical fields for resistors spark plugs feed through insulators and numerous other applications. The pottery that is found on 17th and 18th century archaeological sites in maryland came from all over the world. Prehistoric ceramics the earliest ceramics produced in the u s were made in the southeast around 2500 b c.
Maryland ceramic steatite has manufactured custom technical ceramics since 1955.