For those interested - here is the schedule and sign up information for the upcoming two day virtual Massachusetts Redware Conference hosted by Historic Beverly in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Late 18th or Early 19th Century Slip Decorated Flask
Attributed to the National Seymour Pottery in West Hartford, CT
From the Lura Woodside Watkins Collection at the Smithsonian Institute
See Article for More Information
Photo Courtesy: National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute
Upcoming Virtual Massachusetts Redware Conference Scheduled for April 2021
Red earthenware production began altogether in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century with at least one documented pottery operating in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As the years passed in the eighteenth century, potteries began to appear all over coastal Massachusetts, and this spread continued after the American Revolution into the 1800s, with basically all areas of the state engulfed with red earthenware production. Some of the most significant businesses were located in Essex County and Bristol County. This virtual conference will analyze production from different angles, including scholarship, archaeology and existing museum collections. Speakers include:
Day 1
Justin Thomas, a collector, researcher and writer about American pottery production from the seventeenth through the early-twentieth century and author of The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence, The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potters, Dawn of Independence, the Death of an Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Mass., and other related books
Amanda Lange – Curatorial Department Director and Curator of Historic Interior at Historic Deerfield
Bonnie Campbell Lilienfeld – Assistant Director, Curatorial Affairs at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute
Tom Kelleher – Historian and Curator of Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village
Day 2
Abby Battis – Associate Director for Collections, Historic Beverly
Rick Hamelin - Massachusetts Potter and Redware Scholar
Joe Bagley – Boston City Archaeologist
Advance registration required here; limited to 100.
Full conference
$100/$80 HB members
1 day (either)
$55/$44 members
Details
Date: April 8-9
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
More info - this link will redirect you to the event page on Historic Beverly's website.
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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