European Origins and Transatlantic Exports

Tin-Glazed Earthenware in North America 
A Three-Day Decorative Arts Forum at Historic Deerfield 

Historic Deerfield presents a three-day forum on European tin-glazed earthenware manufacture and its exportation to North America. The practice of tin glazing spans a thousand years of history from its beginnings in Mesopotamia in the 9th century. From there the decorative technique spread to Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, the Netherlands,Great Britain, and the New World.  

This program brings together a diversity of perspectives and examines the North American market in a more comprehensive manner than ever before.  Speakers include Dr. Tânia Manuel Casimiro of the Institute of Archaeology and Paleosciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, on Portuguese faience; Femke Diercks of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on Dutch Delftware; Leslie B. Grigsby of the Winterthur Museum, on archaeological evidence of English and Continental tin-glazed earthenware in colonial America; Amanda Lange of Historic Deerfield, on the technology of tinglazed earthenware, its history, and early production; Dr. Margaret Connors McQuade, of  the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, on Spanish and Mexican maiolica; Wendy Watson, of the Mount Holyoke Art Museum on Italian Renaissance maiolica; and Elizabeth Williams, of  the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island, on French faience.

Click here to view or download the forum brochure.