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Wednesday, 24 June 2015 10:35

Fernside Cottage: A Collection of Collections

The crisp and spare anonymous portrait of an unidentified man is painted on wood and is in its original frame. On the table is one of the rarest pieces of American yellow ware with a Rockingham glaze. This figural inkwell, on an inverted vegetable dish, made at the Harker and Taylor pottery (active 1851–1871) in Liverpool, Ohio, is referred to in the company’s records as “William Penn Treating with the Iroquois.” Two other examples are pictured in Harker Pottery from Rockingham and Yellowware to Modern, by William and Donna Gray (Schiffer, 2006). The crisp and spare anonymous portrait of an unidentified man is painted on wood and is in its original frame. On the table is one of the rarest pieces of American yellow ware with a Rockingham glaze. This figural inkwell, on an inverted vegetable dish, made at the Harker and Taylor pottery (active 1851–1871) in Liverpool, Ohio, is referred to in the company’s records as “William Penn Treating with the Iroquois.” Two other examples are pictured in Harker Pottery from Rockingham and Yellowware to Modern, by William and Donna Gray (Schiffer, 2006). Ellen McDermott via InCollect

Two dozen species of hosta line the path to the door of Fernside Cottage, a fieldstone house tucked into a hillside by a creek. Open the door and find a veritable shower of rainbow spatterware; the English pearlware festooned, draped, and striped in prism colors. Move on to the stair hall and be heralded by two towers of graduated stoneware crocks painted with cobalt deer, birds, or flowers. “It is all about graphics,” says Dennis, a designer, landscaper, restorer of old houses, and...

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