Crock
Artist:
William Saenger
(active ca. 1880 - 1905)
Date: ca. 1888-1900
Place made:Elmendorf, Texas, United States
Medium: Glazed stoneware
Credit Line: Gift of Nancy B. Negley
Object number: 80.37.5
Exhibition History: "VOLKSKUNST: German-American Folk Art from Pennsylvania and Texas," organized by San Antonio Museum in conjunction with the Reading Public Museum. Curated by Louisa D. Bartlett, Guest Curator of Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans at the Reading Public Museum, and co-curated by Nancy Fullerton, Assistant Curator of Latin American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. October 4, 2008 - January 18, 2009.
Label Text
SAENGER POTTERY
William Saenger emigrated from Germany in 1874 and worked as a potter in New Jersey, Missouri, and Kansas before settling in Texas. He established a pottery at St. Hedwig in Bexar County from 1880 to 1888 when he moved to Elmendorf, an area known for better clays and railroad transportation. He employed German immigrant workers until 1905 when his son took over the business. Two of these workers, Franz Schultz and William Meyer later formed their own pottery in Atascosa. Saenger used salt and slip-glazes, including Albany slip glaze until 1900 when the pottery adopted the Bristol glaze, a white glaze that was common elsewhere in the United States.
(Label text, 2008 - Louisa D. Bartlett, Decorative arts consultant based in Mendenhall, Pennsylvania)
William Saenger emigrated from Germany in 1874 and worked as a potter in New Jersey, Missouri, and Kansas before settling in Texas. He established a pottery at St. Hedwig in Bexar County from 1880 to 1888 when he moved to Elmendorf, an area known for better clays and railroad transportation. He employed German immigrant workers until 1905 when his son took over the business. Two of these workers, Franz Schultz and William Meyer later formed their own pottery in Atascosa. Saenger used salt and slip-glazes, including Albany slip glaze until 1900 when the pottery adopted the Bristol glaze, a white glaze that was common elsewhere in the United States.
(Label text, 2008 - Louisa D. Bartlett, Decorative arts consultant based in Mendenhall, Pennsylvania)
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