Wye Oak Lecture—A Chronicle in Crocks: Baltimore’s Legacy in Early American Stoneware

Name: Wye Oak Lecture—A Chronicle in Crocks: Baltimore’s Legacy in Early American Stoneware
Start: 2025-12-13T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-13T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21201

Schedule

Sat Dec 13 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21201 | Baltimore, MD

From the 1700s to the late 1800s, the pantries of many Americans doubled as galleries of unique folk art: artfully crafted, salt-glazed vessels decorated with animals, landscapes, and caricatures rendered in blue cobalt oxide. Early American stoneware, or “crocks,” was a quotidian part of everyday life, and Baltimore was an epicenter of stoneware production that shaped the technique, style, and taste of crocks throughout the Eastern Seaboard. MCHC welcomes Luke Zipp, Specialist and Auctioneer at Crocker Farm Auction House, for an exploration of the Baltimore region’s formative role, and makers, in this American art form.
Doors open at 10:30 am. Lecture begins at 11:00 am. Light reception to follow.
Register at https://www.mdhistory.org/calendar/wye-oak-lecture-a-chronicle-in-crocks-baltimores-legacy-in-early-american-stoneware/