Name/Title
PlateEntry/Object ID
GHS 2394Description
Irregularly shaped porcelain plate with colorless glaze and dark green hand done over painting. Trees and stream with musical staff. Drawing of houses with tiller. Two seals. On back of plate: Founding of the Church of the Brethern 1723. Dec 25 Peter Becker with his band of twenty three followers wended (?) their way down the Indian trail, which is now Carpenter Street and Kitchen's Lane to the Wissahickon where the ice was broken and the unbaptised were immersed three times during the singing of Alexander Mack's baptismal hymn. They then proceeded to the house of Johannes Gumre (?) - Monastery Hill where the love feast--feet washing and communion were observed. As they separated two bright lights were seen in the distance. The holy fires lighted with mystic rites by the hermits of the ridge who had assisted in the baptism.
Christopher Saver established the first German printing house in America--teh unbound sheets of German bibles, stored in the loft of the Dunker Church were used as gun wads during the Battle of Germantown, as well as the litter (?) for the horses by the British.Made/Created
Date made
1900Place
* Untyped Place
Limoges, FranceNotes
Creation Date: 1900-1950?Inscription/Signature/Marks
Dimensions
Height
7/8 inWidth
9-1/2 inDepth
12-1/4 inProvenance
Notes
Additional mark: written on base is information on the founding of the Church of the Brethern on the face--teh Baptistry Wissahickon. The first Baptism 1723. Seal of Alexander Mack. Dunbert Meeting House 1770 Parsonage 1756. Christopher Sauer's Meeting House 1738.
Loan: Germantown DAR February 1969
GHS 2393 & 2395, same artist and donor