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The wide range of pottery decorated in blue and white with intricate transfer-printed patterns is popular among collectors. Intended as an introduction to the subject, this guide provides information on materials, techniques, manufacturers, and styles. "Fact Files" highlight key aspects of each subject, show manufacturers' identifying marks and feature tips on collecting. Advice on care and restoration is provided at the back of the book, along with a glossary.

Portmeirion pottery evolved from a souvenir shop in North Wales into a twenty-first-century global business, thanks to the flair and vision of Susan Williams-Ellis. She captured the aspirations of households all over the world, transforming their kitchens and dining rooms from the 1960s onwards by cleverly blending the contemporary and the traditional. Her 'Botanic Garden' pattern, introduced in 1972, combined antique flower prints with contemporary shapes, and having been in production for the...

Founded in 1894 by James Wright Beswick, Beswick Pottery remained in the family for three generations before becoming part of Royal Doulton in 1969, and is now independently owned. As owners and collectors of its products will testify, Beswick aimed, and still aims today, to produce well-made ceramics at affordable prices: wares which could be used daily in the home as well as decorative ornaments for animal lovers of all ages to cherish. In this volume Val Baynton explores the range of products...

Horst Kerstan (1941-2005) made a crucial impact on post-1945 German ceramics. The artist, who is renowned at home and abroad, began his career with an apprenticeship in the workshop of the former ceramic master Richard Bampi. Through his involvement with Hans Arp, Kerstan created incommutable forms of fruit and waves, testaments to a distinct language of forms. Chinese ceramics inspired him to reach the highest level of perfection in form and glaze, while Japanese ceramics taught him to let go...

"Sevres Then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750-2000" showcases the longstanding achievements of the French porcelain factory, in particular its unparalleled invention and creativity over three centuries, featuring 87 ceramics from the Hillwood Museum and other collections. Three essays illustrated by exhibits are devoted to innovations in both production and design at the Sevres factory from the 1750s to the 21st-century. The opening section explores the beginnings of the fact...

This monumental and authoritative encyclopedia lists over four thousand British ceramic marks, making it the most comprehensive volume of its kind.

Beadwork developed as a decorative craft in Europe in the middle ages. It was first used to enhance embroidery but in the seventeenth century, complete objects were made from beads, and soon every girl was expected to include it among her accomplishments. There was a decline in the popularity of beadwork during the eighteenth century but in the nineteenth century feminine crafts of all kinds assumed great importance and beadwork flourished. This book describes and illustrates the many different...

Illustrating work from her earliest student days to tablewares in current production, this major publication forms an invaluable handbook to the work of Susie Cooper, the important and influential ceramic designer whose work is avidly collected today. There is an index of marks, a glossary and bibliography as well as useful appendices listing, among other things, her employees and associates and the retailers who dealt in her wares.

Out of the fire comes the history, creation, and artistry of wood-fired wares. Includes in-depth studies of contemporary kiln designs, complete with schematics and photos, an analysis of the firing process, clays as they relate to woodfiring, and contemporary expressions in woodfiring from 1900 to present.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the George Wade pottery in Burslem, England, has produced many forms of ceramic items. It is best known for their delightful series of tiny porcelain animals known as Whimsies (R). Highly collectible, the Whimsies have been joined over the years by many equally charming miniatures, some sold by the company directly and others distributed as premiums. With over 380 full color photographs, this revised book showcases the endearing miniatures produced by Wade from...

The definitive and most up-to-date volume on the celebrated Biloxi artist, who was the most revolutionary art potter of his time. Called the Mad Potter of Biloxi, the Apostle of Individuality, and the self-proclaimed Greatest Art Potter on Earth, George Edgar Ohr (1857–1918) transformed wheel-thrown pots into ceramic works that were far ahead of their time. Though the unprecedented shapes and idiosyncratic glazes of Ohr’s creations were ridiculed by some during his lifetime, he was recognized a...

As early as 1904, the J.W.McCoy Pottery Co.--changing focus from more simple, utilitarian stoneware pieces--began the production of art pottery consisting of elaborately designed, decorative items, including jardinieres, pedestals, and various other flower containers, umbrella stands, and sand jars. Proving to be a very successful undertaking, these attractively glazed pieces are the most widely recognized among collectors, antique dealers, and pottery enthusiasts. Gathered by author Mark F. Mor...

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 i...

Slipware was for centuries the traditional rural pottery of Europe and America-until the Industrial Revolution with its streamlined and mechanical production methods almost brought about its demise. For many years it survived only in country areas, but a renewed interest in its techniques and appreciation of its rich, vibrant qualities has today brought slipware to the forefront as a pottery of choice. In this engaging and informative book, Victoria Eden and Michael Eden trace the history of sl...

This edition takes the reader from the earliest pottery extant dating from the first Neolithic period through the classical names to the more collectable items of the 19th and 20th centuries. It traces the links in the development of English pottery and puts them into historical context.

This volume illustrates one hundred works from a significant and wide-ranging collection of Chinese ceramics, including works of the Chinese potters' art from the Neolithic through the Yuan dynasties (approximately 4000 BC through to the 14th century), with works from the major traditions and kilns. It showcases the extraordinary achievements of Chinese potters in both earthenware and stoneware, and in ceramics made for use in this world as well as the afterlife. One of the earliest works includ...

This handsomely illustrated volume is the second in a series of publications aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum is famed for its Greek vases. Joan R. Mertens, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan, has chosen thirty-five notable examples. They reveal the variety and vitality of the refined forms and masterfully rendered scenes that characterize these works. And they demonstrat...

Eva Zeisel was one of the twentieth century's most influential ceramicists and designers of modern housewares. Her distinctive take on modern industrial design was inspired by organic form and brought beauty and playfulness to housewares, earning her designs a beloved place in midcentury homes. This richly illustrated volume-the first-ever complete biographical account of Zeisel's life and work-presents an extensive survey of every line she ever created, all captured in gorgeous new photography,...