Author: Mervyn Edwards
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398100498
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A fascinating collection of images showing how the towns and villages in the Staffordshire Potteries have changed across the last century.
The Potteries Through Time
Author: Mervyn Edwards
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398100498
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A fascinating collection of images showing how the towns and villages in the Staffordshire Potteries have changed across the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398100498
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A fascinating collection of images showing how the towns and villages in the Staffordshire Potteries have changed across the last century.
North Carolina Potteries Through Time
Author: Stephen C. Compton
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781635000474
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Potter, teacher, and writer Jack Troy once said, "If North America has a 'pottery state,' it must be North Carolina." North Carolina Potteries Through Time proves to readers that his assessment is correct. Prehistoric Native American potters first made pottery in the region, followed by eighteenth-century English and German settlers. Many generations of potters followed in their footsteps, and today hundreds of potters and ceramics artists turn out ware in every part of the state. In the town of Seagrove, there's a whole museum and educational center dedicated to North Carolina pottery production. Many private and public collections exist. Buyers seek it out at auctions, antique shops, kiln openings, festivals, and studio sales. This book is chock-full of images representing all periods and styles of pottery made in the state, including many published for the first time. Readers new to the topic, as well as expert collectors, historians, and potters will find satisfaction in this richly illustrated and descriptively written volume.
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781635000474
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Potter, teacher, and writer Jack Troy once said, "If North America has a 'pottery state,' it must be North Carolina." North Carolina Potteries Through Time proves to readers that his assessment is correct. Prehistoric Native American potters first made pottery in the region, followed by eighteenth-century English and German settlers. Many generations of potters followed in their footsteps, and today hundreds of potters and ceramics artists turn out ware in every part of the state. In the town of Seagrove, there's a whole museum and educational center dedicated to North Carolina pottery production. Many private and public collections exist. Buyers seek it out at auctions, antique shops, kiln openings, festivals, and studio sales. This book is chock-full of images representing all periods and styles of pottery made in the state, including many published for the first time. Readers new to the topic, as well as expert collectors, historians, and potters will find satisfaction in this richly illustrated and descriptively written volume.
It's Just Dirt! the Historic Art Potteries of North Carolina's Seagrove Region
Author: Stephen C. Compton
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634990172
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of Pottery in North Carolina's Seagrove area where more than one hundred potters craft pottery today.
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634990172
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of Pottery in North Carolina's Seagrove area where more than one hundred potters craft pottery today.
Staffordshire Figures
Author: Adele Kenny
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764319174
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unique book offers an in-depth look at the cultural, socio-economic, religious, political, and technological conditions that defined the subject matter of Staffordshire Figures. Each chapter is a self-contained study of the potteries, the potters, and various categories of pre-Victorian and Victorian figures including spaniels and other animals, the monarchy, religious figures, children, heroes and rouges, architectural figures and much more. Included are over 550 superb color photographs of Staffordshire figures (some previously unrecorded), and detailed captions with values.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764319174
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unique book offers an in-depth look at the cultural, socio-economic, religious, political, and technological conditions that defined the subject matter of Staffordshire Figures. Each chapter is a self-contained study of the potteries, the potters, and various categories of pre-Victorian and Victorian figures including spaniels and other animals, the monarchy, religious figures, children, heroes and rouges, architectural figures and much more. Included are over 550 superb color photographs of Staffordshire figures (some previously unrecorded), and detailed captions with values.
Stoke-On-Trent
Author: Steve Ainsworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906649623
Category : Stoke-on-Trent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906649623
Category : Stoke-on-Trent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Early Pottery
Author: Rebecca Saunders
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817351272
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A synthesis of research on earthenware technologies of the Late Archaic Period in the southeastern U.S. Information on social groups and boundaries, and on interaction between groups, burgeons when pottery appears on the social landscape of the Southeast in the Late Archaic period (ca. 5000-3000 years ago). This volume provides a broad, comparative review of current data from "first potteries" of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and it presents research that expands our understanding of how pottery functioned in its earliest manifestations in this region. Included are discussions of Orange pottery in peninsular Florida, Stallings pottery in Georgia, Elliot's Point fiber-tempered pottery in the Florida panhandle, and the various pottery types found in excavations over the years at the Poverty Point site in northeastern Louisiana. The data and discussions demonstrate that there was much more interaction, and at an earlier date, than is often credited to Late Archaic societies. Indeed, extensive trade in pottery throughout the region occurs as early as 1500 B.C. These and other findings make this book indispensable to those involved in research into the origin and development of pottery in general and its unique history in the Southeast in particular.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817351272
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A synthesis of research on earthenware technologies of the Late Archaic Period in the southeastern U.S. Information on social groups and boundaries, and on interaction between groups, burgeons when pottery appears on the social landscape of the Southeast in the Late Archaic period (ca. 5000-3000 years ago). This volume provides a broad, comparative review of current data from "first potteries" of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and it presents research that expands our understanding of how pottery functioned in its earliest manifestations in this region. Included are discussions of Orange pottery in peninsular Florida, Stallings pottery in Georgia, Elliot's Point fiber-tempered pottery in the Florida panhandle, and the various pottery types found in excavations over the years at the Poverty Point site in northeastern Louisiana. The data and discussions demonstrate that there was much more interaction, and at an earlier date, than is often credited to Late Archaic societies. Indeed, extensive trade in pottery throughout the region occurs as early as 1500 B.C. These and other findings make this book indispensable to those involved in research into the origin and development of pottery in general and its unique history in the Southeast in particular.
California Potteries
Author: Mike Schneider
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780887408779
Category : Pottery figures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the 1930s to the 1960s, numerous potteries in California turned out some of the finest figural pottery ever made in America. Here they are illustrated in over 800 color photographs covering more than 75 companies such as Brayton Laguna, Kay Finch, Hedi Scoop, DeLee Art, Robert Simmons, Walker-Renaker, and others. Provides information about the potteries, tips for collectors, and Price Guide.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780887408779
Category : Pottery figures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the 1930s to the 1960s, numerous potteries in California turned out some of the finest figural pottery ever made in America. Here they are illustrated in over 800 color photographs covering more than 75 companies such as Brayton Laguna, Kay Finch, Hedi Scoop, DeLee Art, Robert Simmons, Walker-Renaker, and others. Provides information about the potteries, tips for collectors, and Price Guide.
The Radical Potter
Author: Tristram Hunt
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250128358
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medallion—depicting an enslaved African and inscribed “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”—became the most popular symbol of the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. And he did it all in the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. As historian Tristram Hunt puts it in this lively, vivid biography, Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century: a difficult, brilliant, creative figure whose personal drive and extraordinary gifts changed the way we work and live. Drawing on a rich array of letters, journals, and historical documents, The Radical Potter brings us the story of a singular man, his dazzling contributions to design and innovation, and his remarkable global impact.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250128358
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medallion—depicting an enslaved African and inscribed “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”—became the most popular symbol of the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. And he did it all in the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. As historian Tristram Hunt puts it in this lively, vivid biography, Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century: a difficult, brilliant, creative figure whose personal drive and extraordinary gifts changed the way we work and live. Drawing on a rich array of letters, journals, and historical documents, The Radical Potter brings us the story of a singular man, his dazzling contributions to design and innovation, and his remarkable global impact.
Potters and Potteries of Chester County Pennsylvania
Author: Arthur Edwin James
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780916838188
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The distinctive potteries in Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, have produced utilitarian goods for the farmers who settled here and influenced their descendents who moved West and South. In the 19th century, famous potteries in Chester County made redware, majolica, and semi-porcelains of note. This work records histories, shows examples, and documents early settlers.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780916838188
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The distinctive potteries in Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, have produced utilitarian goods for the farmers who settled here and influenced their descendents who moved West and South. In the 19th century, famous potteries in Chester County made redware, majolica, and semi-porcelains of note. This work records histories, shows examples, and documents early settlers.
Carolina Clay
Author: Leonard Todd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"He is known today, as he was then, only as Dave. His jugs and storage jars were everyday items, but because of their beauty and sometimes massive size they are now highly sought after by collectors. Born about 1801, Dave was taught to turn pots in Edgefield, South Carolina, the center of alkaline-glazed pottery production. He also learned to read and write, in spite of South Carolina's long-standing fear of slave literacy. Even when the state made it a crime to teach a slave to write, Dave signed his pots and inscribed many of them with poems. Though his verses spoke simply of his daily experience, they were nevertheless powerful statements. He countered the slavery system not by writing words of protest but by daring to write at all. We know of no other slave artist who put his name on his work." "When Leonard Todd discovered that his family had owned Dave, he moved from Manhattan to Edgefield, where his ancestors had established the first potteries in the area. Todd studied each of Dave's poems for biographical clues, which he pieced together with local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave's life - a story of creative triumph in the midst of oppression. Many of Dave's astounding jars are found now in America's finest museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Charleston Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"He is known today, as he was then, only as Dave. His jugs and storage jars were everyday items, but because of their beauty and sometimes massive size they are now highly sought after by collectors. Born about 1801, Dave was taught to turn pots in Edgefield, South Carolina, the center of alkaline-glazed pottery production. He also learned to read and write, in spite of South Carolina's long-standing fear of slave literacy. Even when the state made it a crime to teach a slave to write, Dave signed his pots and inscribed many of them with poems. Though his verses spoke simply of his daily experience, they were nevertheless powerful statements. He countered the slavery system not by writing words of protest but by daring to write at all. We know of no other slave artist who put his name on his work." "When Leonard Todd discovered that his family had owned Dave, he moved from Manhattan to Edgefield, where his ancestors had established the first potteries in the area. Todd studied each of Dave's poems for biographical clues, which he pieced together with local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave's life - a story of creative triumph in the midst of oppression. Many of Dave's astounding jars are found now in America's finest museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Charleston Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston."--BOOK JACKET.