This charger is an important example of eighteenth-century Southern pottery and is attributed to Gottfried Aust, the first master craftsman at the Moravian settlement in North Carolina. Before settling in the South, Aust originally immigrated to Pennsylvania, where other German potters produced similar slip wares. The naturalistic flowers seen in his decoration appear more frequently in Moravian wares than in contemporary Pennsylvanian examples, which often depicted stylized human or animal forms. The squiggle borders in green and brown are typical of decoration in North Carolina Moravian wares, and the bold flowers sprouting from green leaves at the base is a motif used on other chargers by Aust.