Southeastern Pennsylvania has much red shale and red clay giving the Dutch potters their opportunity, very soon after they had settled on their farms and cleared the land. It was a practical because they needed crocks, pots, baking dishes, and such, for their food manufacturing activities, also tile for roofs. Very soon the Pennsylvania-Dutch potters were making platters, crocks, jugs, and pots for utilitarian reasons.

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The pie plate was the most general article of sgraffito work, and the most widely distributed. The pie has always been a great favorite of the Pennsylvania-Dutch. The reason why the sgraffito pie plate of earthenware was used so much was because of the Pennsylvania-Dutch ovens. When the Pennsylvania-Dutch woman would baked her bread on the oven hearth, she was able, without any additional fuel cost, to bake pies also in the same oven at the same time.

The tulip motif appears positively everywhere in Dutch art--even on the barn designs and on the walls. Of course the sgraffito are stunning with them. The Pennsylvania-Dutch tulip design has been found on about 35 different objects of decoration, beginning with barn designs, and continuing on to pottery (Cooper Ten Thousand Years of Pottery 214-225).

Clays were dug from local river

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