Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002

Early art in New Jersey sprang from the industrial pattern of the Colony. Numerous Colonial craftsmen are honored anonymously today for their furniture making, tavern decorating, sign painting, and weaving. Their products are scattered through the homes of the State, particularly in the south, and in the countless antique shops that line highways and village main streets.

The deposits of pure quartz sand in southern New Jersey attracted European glass workers, and by 1750 the glass industry at Wistarburgh had become the Colony's most notable craft. It produced Wistar glass objects, delicately colored bottles and bowls and brilliantly surfaced glasses and globes. Remarkable for their purity of color and the originality of their wave and whorl designs, the broad-based Wistar products are among the most valued collectors' items. In 1775 another German family, the Stangers, founded a glass works at Glassboro which became equally famous for its wares.

Pottery began with the works established by Daniel Coxe at Burlington in 1688 and increased steadily in beauty and importance throughout the Colonial period, culminating in the founding of the Fulper Pottery Company in Flemington in 1805 and the American Pottery at Jersey City two decades later. Stoneware, crocks, flowerpots, and brown glazed ware from these potteries, as well as from those established later at Trenton, rank among the choicest in the Nation.

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