Author: Don RaycraftPublisher:
ISBN: 9780891454205
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shows stoneware articles, explains pottery terms, and lists current price ranges.
Collector's Guide to Country Stoneware & Pottery
Author: Don RaycraftPublisher:
ISBN: 9780891454205
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shows stoneware articles, explains pottery terms, and lists current price ranges.
Country Pottery
Author: Andrew McGarvaPublisher: A & C Black
ISBN: 9780713648133
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In this book the author looks over the history of British country potteries, the personalities that emerged and their wares that were made. He then discusses how a new generation of potters have been influenced by them and how these potters are incorporating these traditions in the work that they are currently making.
Irish Country
Author: Nicholas MossePublisher: Hearst
ISBN: 9780688165017
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Focused on the work of Nicholas Mosse, this book details the essential elements of Irish country style, as embodied in pottery, fabric, and furniture. 125 color photos.
Home and Country
Author: Country Painting Projects
Author: Emma HunkPublisher:
ISBN: 9780895779106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Decorating ordinary household items with charming painted motifs can enhance your home with a personal touch that is both stylish and surprisingly easy to achieve. Country Painting Projects shows you exactly how to transform - and beautify - a range of everyday objects by painting delightful and versatile designs on them. The book is designed to ensure that anyone with a bit of artistic ability can successfully paint all the projects. All you need to do is trace the chosen motif from the book, then follow the author's precise step-by-step illustrations, which show exactly how the paint is applied to complete each image. Detailed photographic sequences demonstrate just how to prepare the piece and produce a perfect finish. In Country Painting Projects you will also find variations for every motif as well as ideas for borders. A section on materials and techniques will help you achieve results to be proud of time after time.
Pottery & Porcelain
Author: Emil HannoverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Global Clay
Author: John A. BurrisonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253035341
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world's ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay: Themes in World Ceramic Traditions, noted pottery scholar John A. Burrison explores the recurring artistic themes that tie humanity together, explaining how and why those themes appear again and again in worldwide ceramic traditions. The book is richly illustrated with over 200 full-color, cross-cultural illustrations of ceramics from prehistory to the present. Providing an introduction to different styles of folk pottery, extensive suggestions for further reading, and reflections on the future of traditional pottery around the world, Global Clay is sure to become a classic for all who love art and pottery and all who are intrigued by the human commonalities revealed through art.
The English Country Pottery
Author: Peter C. D. BrearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Country Life
Author: Great & Noble Jar
Author: Cinda K. BaldwinPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346160
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
First published in 1993, this was the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and its history, including he methods used to throw, glaze, decorate, and fire the vessels. Illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs (including fifteen color plates), maps, and drawings, plus an index of potters.