19th-Century American Jugs: Relief-Molded Pitchers from the Collection

September 15, 2016 - May 05, 2017 - The exhibition explores variations of several designs and looks at the technique of relief-molding used by the designers and potteries in the creation and production of these ceramics. Highlighting nineteenth-century American jugs, the exhibition was selected from the ceramics that were donated by New York collectors Emma and Jay Lewis in 2012. Their gift of more than 200 pieces established the largest museum study collection of American Rockingham pottery on the East Coast.  This exhibition, the second installation drawn exclusively from the study collection, is concurrent with the long-term installation in the Lora Robins Gallery devoted to nineteenth-century American ceramics.