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The Red Earthenware Manufactured In
River Edge, New Jersey
A Look At Bergen County Pottery
By Justin W. Thomas
Founded in 1902 by north-
ern New Jersey men and
women, the Bergen County
Historical Society tells the
county’s story as a whole,
beginning with the area’s set-
tlement in the 17th century and
through the 1900s. Since 1939,
the historical society has been
based at historic New Bridge
Landing in River Edge. The
museum is the largest histori-
cal society in New Jersey, while
also representing the most
comprehensive collection of
artifacts illustrating the history
of Bergen County, the New
Jersey Dutch and other groups
who settled in the area.
Located across the Hudson
River, about 16 miles north of
Manhattan, and along the
Hackensack River, River Edge
was first settled by Europeans
when Cornelius Matthew
arrived, a Swedish immigrant
who established the first set-
tlement about 1683. In Colonial
times, this area was known for
its river crossings, farms and
military activity that occurred
during the American
Revolution. Although, River
Edge also sustained a prosper-
ous red earthenware business
in the 19th century, where
some production can be misin-
terpreted for wares made in
Pennsylvania today, some of
which are owned by the Bergen
The red earthenware plate attributed
to Henry Jacob Van Saun was discov-
ered almost 20 years ago in a group lot
at a small country auction in New
Hampshire. The figure in the center of
this plate depicts a bearded man and
is related to the plates made in 1825 in
celebration of Marquis de Lafayette’s
grand tour of America and the 50th
anniversary of the American
Revolution.
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New York City was a
hotspot for potters who
shipped their production to the
city’s docks in the 1800s;
among the notable potters was
a business established in River
Edge by Henry Jacob Van Saun
(d. 1829) about 1811, when he
opened a brickyard and a pot-
tery. Van Saun certainly pro-
duced all the traditional forms
of utilitarian red earthenware,
but his most significant wares
may have been those manufac-
tured around 1824-25, celebrat-
ing the 50th anniversary of the
American Revolution and the
return of Lafayette.
Beginning in September of
1824 through July 1825, Marquis
de Lafayette (1757-1834) made a
tour of the 24 states in America,
arriving at Staten Island on Aug.
15, 1824. He toured the north-
ern and eastern states in the
fall of that year, including
Thomas Jefferson’s estate
Monticello in Virginia, as well as
visiting President
Monroe at the White House.
Nearly 50 years earlier,
James
Lafayette, a French general, led
troops under the command of
Gen. George Washington in the
American Revolution. And
among those who celebrated
Lafayette’s grand return were
American potters; for instance,
there were some slip-script red
earthenware plates and plat-
ters manufactured, reading,
“Lafayette,” such as examples
that were produced in Norwalk,
Conn., ca. 1824-25. Lafayette’s
return was the talk of the
nation, and there was a
demand for novelty items cap-
turing this historic event.
Van Saun decided to com-
memorate the event by manu-
facturing some plates with pro-
files in relief in the center,
while Lafayette traveled
through Bergan County. The
few known examples include
Lafayette, as well as
Washington surrounded by 13
stars. These were likely manu-
factured for the local market,
but some may have made their
way into New York City in the
mid-1820s, as well. The Bergen
County Historical Society and
the New York State Museum in
Albany own the majority of the
known examples today. But
there must have been other
styles also produced, seeing
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his art; among his first orders
was a wedding gift for a bride at
Ramsey (N.J.) in 1830, consisting
of a set of cups and saucers.
One still in evidence shows
they were greatly appreciated
when she learned they were
made of Bergen County native
clay. This potter became well
known, and his wares were car-
ried by horse and wagon all
over Bergen and Rockland
counties and sold to “country
stores” and to “private parties.”
Wolfkiel’s production com-
bined a wide variety of slip-
ware, often adorned with ini-
tials, names, dates, birds and
abstract designs. The most
famous of the wares he made is
likely a slip-script platter in the
collection of the Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art in
Hartford, Conn., reading, “Hard
Times in Jersey.” Another signif-
icant object made by Wolfkiel is
a dated slipware plate, “1848,”
which is in the collection of the
Bergen County Historical
Society; the date may be relat-
ed to Wolfkiel’s first full year of
owning the old Van Saun
Pottery. The historical society
also owns a slip-decorated
plate of significant interest that
could be mistaken for wares
made in Pennsylvania because
of the style of the slip. But it is
actually recorded as having
been purchased brand new
from the Wolfkiel Pottery in
1840 by A. Auryansen.
Although some of Wolfkiel’s
production was sold locally and
elsewhere in New Jersey,
archaeology has also proven
that he shipped production to
Here are slip-script wares manufactured in River Edge by George Wolfkiel, ca.
1830-67.
Courtesy of the Bergen County Historical Society.
they probably sold all types of
earthenware that was regularly
shipped to New York City and
the surrounding area in the
1800s. The style of the slip-
script found on this advertising
platter is similar to the platter
owned by the Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art,
inscribed, “Hard Times in
Jersey.”
The slip-decorated wares
most identifiable to Wolkiel’s
production are typically deco-
rated with a distinctive curly
“Y,” such as an example owned
by the Staten Island Historical
Society, retaining a history of
local ownership, inscribed,
“Lucy.” Another slip-script
plate, manufactured with the
same distinguishing curl, is in
the collection of Winterthur
Museum in Delaware, inscribed,
“Mandy”; a group of related
plates are also owned by the
Bergen County Historical
Society.
A notable object that may
have been manufactured by
Wolfkiel was recovered not
long ago about nine miles west
of River Edge in Paterson, N.J.
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adorned in a highly unusual
stylized slip design, utilizing
dots and squiggled lines, cover-
ing the entire plate as a canvas.
Another extraordinary slip-dec-
orated plate possibly made by
Wolfkiel was recovered some
years ago in Manhattan, where
the remains show what
appears to be a flower or some
type of figure in the center, sur-
rounded by a squiggled line
around the exterior edge of the
plate. This type of exterior slip
design is found on some of
Wolfkiel’s known production.
Another market that this
production was likely shipped
to was Newark, N.J., which saw a
giant increase in its population
growth from when Wolfkiel first
arrived in the area in 1830, of
nearly 11,000 people to almost
72,000 people in 1860. In fact,
found in the collection of the
Newark Museum of Art are
some objects that are attrib-
uted to Wolfkiel, retaining his-
tories of ownership in Bergan
County. Those pieces include a
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covered jar, which is a style of
production that could be misin-
terpreted for production from
another location, as well as a
slip-decorated plate, formerly
owned by the Bergen County
Historical Society.
However, there does not
appear to be much evidence to
suggest that Wolfkiel produced
wares beyond single colored
slip-decoration, although there
is a known two-color slip-deco-
rated red earthenware plate
that closely resembles some
artifacts recovered in New York
City, and the style of the slip is
comparable some of Wolfkiel’s
production.
But aside from red earthen-
ware, Francis A. Westervelt also
published that Wolfkiel made
some stoneware, especially in
the latter years of his career in
the 1850s and 1860s. She men-
tioned one style of particular
interest when her book was
published in 1923, stating that
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Continued from page 2
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Impressionism: Highlights
From the Philadelphia Museum
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and Sculpture and curator of
the John G. Johnson Collection;
and “Art of China: Highlights
From the Philadelphia Museum
of Art” (published in 2018), by
Dr. Hiromi Kinoshita, the
Hannah L. and J. Welles
Henderson Associate Curator
of Chinese Art.
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archaeological contexts in New York
City. The slip also appears like some of
George Wolfkiel’s production, but I
have not seen any evidence to prove
Wolfkiel produced multi-colored slip-
ware.
he made, “…salt-glazed crocks
decorated in blue with the
American flag and his signa-
ture…”
In Retrospect
It should be noted that Van
Saun and Wolfkiel were not the
only red earthenware potters
employed in Bergen County in
Kirtley is the Montgomery-
Garvan Curator of American
Decorative Arts at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
where she has worked
since 2001. She has spearhead-
ed numerous major exhibi-
tions, including “Colonial
Philadelphia Porcelain: The Art
of Bonnin and Morris (2008)”
and “Classical Splendor:
Painted Furniture for a Grand
Philadelphia House (2016).”
She has organized installations
at the museum ranging from
Philadelphia furniture to
Rookwood porcelain and the
silverwork of Philip Syng.
Her previous books include the
following: “Classical Splendor:
Preview By Appointment.
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the 1800s; other documented the success, business savvy and
potters include Isaac V. skill of these important early
Machett and his son, Jacques northern New Jersey potters.
Mirgot, along with Peter
Peregrine Sanford.
Nevertheless, Van Saun and
Wolfkiel are the most recogniz-
able today, largely because of Schmelz, Charles B. Szeglin &
archaeology collected at the Kevin Wright. “The Tree of Life:
site of the pottery in 1902, Selections from Bergen County
owned by the Bergen County Folk Art.” Bergen County
Historical Society, along with Historical Society, 1983.
surviving objects retaining
strong histories of local owner-
ship, also in the historical soci-
ety’s collection.
It is important to recognize
that these men were not just
local potters. For years, they
found a niche in the ultra-com-
petitive New York City market
alongside wares made by the
much larger red earthenware
industries in Connecticut, Long
Island and Philadelphia. Not
only does this validate the sig-
nificance of this production
and the constant demand ART- OLD OIL PAINTINGS wanted, any
based on New York City’s
booming 19th century popula-
tion, but it also demonstrates
Painted Furniture for a Grand
Philadelphia House” (2016);
“Start With a House, Finish With ROGALLERY.COM
a Collection” (2014); “Treasures
of American and English
Painting and Decorative
Arts: From the Julian Wood
Glass Jr. Collection” (2010);
and “The 1772 Philadelphia
Furniture Price Book: A
Facsimile” (2005).
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Digest, October 2018. Johnson. “History of Bergen
Sources: ___________________. County, New Jersey, 1630-1923,
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