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WHITE PINES; Glaze samples

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RALPH RADCLIFFE-WHITEHEAD; WHITE PINES POTTERY; Collection of 154 glaze samples, Woodstock, ca. 1917; Mounted in a custom contemporary frame; Ref: A similar panel was exhibited in ''The Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony: Life by Design,'' Delaware Museum of Art, 1984, p. 208; All samples marked with names and formulea; Samples: 2 1/4'' x 1 3/4'', frame: 36'' x 30 1/2''; Note: A thorough discussion of Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead's White Pines pottery appears in ''The Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony; Life by Design'' Robert Edwards, ed.

Note: Whitehead developed several successful red glazes, which were particularly difficult for American art potters. A similar panel of tiles with spectacular red glazes was exhibited in ''The Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony; Life by Design'' 1984, The Delaware Art Museum and illustrated in ''Byrdcliffe; An American Arts and Crafts Colony'' 2004, Cornell, page 208. Whitehead's glaze formulas are recorded in ledgers now in the Downs Collection, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. A thorough discussion of Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead's White Pines pottery appears in ''The Byrdcliffe Arts & Crafts Colony; Life by Design'' Robert Edwards, ed., ''White Pines Pottery; The Continuing Arts and Crafts Experiment'' Jane Perkins Claney, pages 15 through 20.

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