PINE MEER FOUNDATION
BEHRINGER - CRAWFORD MUSEUM
1600 Montague Road, Devou Park, Covington, KY 41001
POTTERY EXHIBIT:
Newcomb Pottery - by Mary Sheerer from Covington, KY
And Kenton Hills & Rookwood Pottery
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The items shown on the left are being loaned to the Behringer Crawford Museum (BCM) by the Director of the Pine Meer Foundation. They include rare Newcomb Pottery items from Mary Sheerer, who worked at Rookwood and left to establish Newcomb in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th Century. There is also an example of applied decorations from from an early Covington artist, Edith Linn, in 1885. However, most of the items loaned and donated to the are from the Kenton Hills Pottery in the early 1940s and by a former Rookwood artist, William Hentschel.
WARDROBE & PURSE COLLECTIONS:
of Melba Schott (Wife of Louis Schott)
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Melba Schott, the wife William C. Schott's brother, Lou Schott, had an extensive of clothes and purses dating from the 1920's. Her daughter, Melba Ann Townsend, donated these collections to the Behringer - Crawford Museum. Some of Melba's items are occaisionally on exhibit at this museum. Since Lou was the former President of Bavarian Brewing Co. (1946-1955) he had a few artifacts from the brewery that the family also donated to the noted museum. These are displayed in the Bavarian Brewery Exhibit, mentioned above.
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The background image is a Pine Meer photograph of the Formal Garden taken in 1929.
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