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This historic 1933 publication documents the important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Italian pottery assembled in the early years of what is now the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. This collection, brought together in part for teaching purposes, contains a wide range of classic pottery types and is illustrative of the development of pottery over time in these Mediterranean cultures. The volume consists of a portfolio containing loose, unbound plates and explanatory text with catalogue, as is t...

The book focuses on a heritage of works of rare beauty, which offers an exhaustive overview of Deco taste, told mainly through ceramics, but also through graphics, glass and metals. The works presented - Italian, but also European and American, dating from the end of the First World War to 1929 - are the expression of well-known artists who marked the history of Italian ceramics at the beginning of the century, and are of absolute international importance. Domenico Rambelli, Francesco Nonni, Pi...

This volume presents a collection of more than 30 papers in honour of one of Europe's leading scholars on Roman pottery, Brenda Dickinson. Divided into thematic sections, papers are mostly concerned with her principal area of study, samian, but also touch on Brenda's other interests, with investigations into, for instance, the likely species of Lesbia's pet bird (Catullus) and language and style in the "British" speeches in Tacitus. Papers in the section on potters and potteries examine t...

The Potteries is the name given to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making companies and until recently supllied most of the country's crockery and decorative ceramics.Although generations of collectors have studied the products of these companies, the story of the industry behind is rarely told. Yet no British industry was ever so concentrated, so polluting, and then so transformed. No industrial skyline was ever more memorable than the forest of...

Now in its eleventh year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context. Included in 2011 edition: *The Chinese Scholar Pattern: Style, Merchant Identity, and the English Imagination-Sarah Fayen Scarlett *Digging Up Salem's Golden Age: Ceramic Use among the Merchant Class-George Schwartz *Ceramic Treasures among Seventeenth-Century Trash: A 1660s Cellar Deposit-Al Luckenbach and John E. Kille *The Stoneware Yea...

Art Deco was arguably the twentieth century's most popular and memorable design movement, and has come to define the inter-war period with its clean sleek lines, streamlined shapes, bold abstract forms and bright colours. Art Deco Tiles charts the impact of this daring new style on the production of tiles and architectural faience in Britain: it shows how they were made and decorated, examines the output of firms like Carter, Pilkington's and Doulton, and describes the innovations introduced by...

At the beginning of the third millennium civilised households around the world had at least one water closet. This British invention dates from 1592, but the first patent was not registered until the late eighteenth century. Although pottery was made by the earliest civilisations, the sanitary pottery industry whas existed for only 150 years. Sanitary pottery has contributed directly towards improving health and helping to combat disease worldwide. For santiary and ablution purposes in early...

The newest addition to an authoritative collecting series, Miller's Collecting Blue & White Pottery begins with a comprehensive discussion of the introduction and development of blue printed pottery, including the manufacturing processes, and why you should want to collect it. A collection has far more value as a whole if it is held together by a coherent theme. Therefore dealer and expert Gillian Neale examines the many different strands possible by dividing the book into collecting by design,...