American pottery established by William Crolius [Johan Willem Crollius] (b Neuwied, near Koblenz, c. 1700; d New York, c. 1776) and John Remmey [Remmi] (d New York, Nov 1762). Crolius arrived in New York c. 1718 and established a stoneware pottery on Pot-Bakers Hill. Bound by intermarriage to the Corselius and Remmey families, who were also in the pottery business, the Crolius family figured prominently in Manhattan pottery history until about 1850. From c. 1735 William Crolius and John Remmey were in business together. Although salt-glazed stoneware was the principal product, lead-glazed earthenware was also made in the early years of the Crolius and Remmey potteries. Before the American Revolution, their stoneware closely resembled Rhenish stoneware with incised decoration filled in with a blue cobalt oxide glaze, but subsequent generations usually painted simple blue embellishments (e.g. pitcher, 1798; New York, NY Hist. Soc.). Remmey’s grandson Henry Remmey sr (b c. 1770; d c. 1865) and great-grandson Henry Remmey jr left New York before 1817, when they were working in Baltimore. In 1827 the latter purchased a pottery in Philadelphia and established the Remmey name there.

• Crolius and Remmey
  • USA, §VII, 1: Ceramics, before 1800