Redware, stoneware, pearlware, and porcelain-- all found a proper place, use, and meaning in homes large and small during the seventeenth through twentieth centuries.  From March 4 through October 30 the Read House & Gardens will focus on the ways different types of ceramics were utilized in homes on the property.  Archaeological remnants - some virtually complete vessels -- of seventeenth and eighteenth century ceramics used in homes claimed by the Fire of 1824 will be on display.  To complement the exhibit, period room arrangements will highlight the use and placement of the same types of ceramics in the Read House in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Read House & Gardens
42 The Strand, New Castle, Delaware 19720
(302) 322-8411

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