Missionaries, Artisans, and Transatlantic Exchange: Production and Distribution of Moravian Pottery in Pennsylvania and the Danish (U.S.) Virgin Islands

Moravian ceramics on St Croix, the Virgin Islands

“…The fragment from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, witnesses the supplies that were regularly sent to from North America to the Caribbean. 8 Moravian settlements in North Carolina include those of Salem, Bethania or Bethabara, with the latter site being the place where master potter Gottfried Aust, apprenticed in Herrnhut, had arrived in 1755. The chemical composition of the clays of three other fragments remains unidentified.…”