Old Salem houses the most comprehensive collection of Moravian ceramics in America. The potters of Salem and the surrounding area produced slip decorated dishes and other tableware as well as sculptural bottle forms.

Moravian potters in Salem were known for making a variety of wheel-thrown, coarse red earthenware pottery including: lead-glazed utilitarian earthenware and decorative trailed slipware. Moravian potters were also accomplished producers of molded ceramics.

Old Salem master craftspeople have long been recognized for their artistry and ability to produce contemporary artifacts inspired by the Moravian originals. These one-of-a-kind creations can be viewed and purchased in Winkler Bakery .

2015年3月10日 · German immigrants Gottfied Aust and Rudolph Christ established a long-lasting, important, and distinctive pottery tradition in the southern United States. Master potter Gottfried Aust settled in Bethabara, one of the earliest Moravian communities in North Carolina, in 1755.

We were compelled to explore Schaffner’s continuation of the Salem Moravian pottery tradition by archaeological discoveries made in the late 1980s in Old Salem. Excavations on Lot 33 and the Herbst House complex in Salem recovered a large amount of industrially produced whiteware, tableware, and tea and coffee service.

It perhaps is no coincidence that the decorative tradition introduced by Aust and perpetuated by his apprentices began to disappear in Moravian pottery during the period when Salem ceased to be a closed community and the church’s control over the lives of its members started to wane.

2018年10月23日 · In our third Lunchtime Lecture, Mr. Hughes investigates Moravian culture through local pottery production at the eighteenth-century town of Salem in the piedmont of colonial North Carolina. Salem’s congregation-owned pottery (1771-1829) represents one of the most thoroughly documented pottery production sites in North Carolina and has been ...

2013年10月13日 · Turn-of-the-19th-century Moravian potters of Salem NC employed colorful slipware patterns and playful forms quite in contrast to their strict religious estheticism. Accounts of Salem market days tell of unruly mobs lunging for …

The Old Salem Collection is the most the comprehensive assemblage of objects made and used in the Moravian town of Salem and surrounding Wachovia area. More objects will be added to the online catalog, so check back regularly.

The current volume presents exciting new research on the Moravian potters and the remarkable earthenware they produced in the Bethabara and Salem communities. Many examples of their sophisticated and highly decorative slipwares and fascinating figural bottles are illustrated for the first time in full color.