House £s? Garden 
GROUP OF SLIP 
DECORATED EARTHENWARE 
VI.— Pic-Plate with Mounted 
Officer of Mexican 
IV.— Pie-Plate with Dove and 
Floral Ornamentation 
II .—Large Meat Dish with Tulip Design 
and Two Circles of Inscriptions , 
Dated 1769 War 
111 . — 'Jar with Tulip Decoration V.— Sugar-Bowl with Crown-shaped Cover 
From the Collection in the Pennsylvania Museum 
supplanted by articles of pewter, china and 
delft, imported from England and Hol¬ 
land, so that by 1850 the primitive styles of 
decoration had practically been abandoned 
in the United States. 
As the Pennsvlvania Germans were pre¬ 
eminently an agricultural race, they drew 
their first artistic inspiration from the familiar 
objects in nature by which they were sur¬ 
rounded. Their earliest attempts at decora¬ 
tion were imitative, rather than inventive. 
Instead of employing purely conventional 
designs and geometrical figures, as did the 
native Pueblo races of the West, they took 
as their models plants, birds, animals and, 
finally, the human form. Not the least 
SGRAFFITO PIE-PLATES 
VII .—Inscribed Example with Heraldic Lion , made by VIII. — Tulip Decorated Piece made by John Nase, 
Frederick Hildebrand Montgomery Co., Penna., 1826 
From the Collection in the Pennsylvania Museum 
