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"There is plenty in these volumes to satisfy students of a number of academic disciplines...the subject matter and many excellent illustrations assure it of a wide appeal."—Clayart
Features articles on chamber pots, the Talbot Hotel Pit group, terracotta gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York, Staffordshire potters and their emigration to America in the 1840s, the pottery of Henry Piercy, the potters and pottery of Morgan’s Town, Virginia, ceramic and porcelain representations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Long Island Redware, and the ceramics of Lucio Fontana.
The third issue of the now-celebrated interdisciplinary annual journal from the Chipstone Foundation http://www.chipstone.org/ that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context, intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters. In addition to heavily-illustrated articles by noted American and British ceramic scholars and a private American collector profile, this issue contains New Discoveries edited by Merry A. Outlaw, Book Reviews and a Checklist of Articles and Books edited by Amy C. Earls, and an Index.
Reviews:
"This volume tackles the themes of cultural innovations, migrations and adaptations in the 18th- and 19th-century ceramics through a compilation of generously illustrated articles."— American Style
"Third Volume of splendid annual series on 18th and 19th century items."—Inside Antiques
"...new discoveries in archaeology, ceramic technologies, and ceramic history..."—Maine Antique Digest
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ROBERT HUNTER is a specialist in American and English ceramics with twenty years of professional experience in historical archaeology excavating Colonial British sites throughout Virginia and North Carolina. He is a partner in the business Period Designs —an innovative firm specializing in the reproduction of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century decorative arts.
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