This book offers a holistic view of ceramic art, including its history, theory, and materiality, and discusses ideas of ceramics and sculpture in which students and professional artists can find solutions and inspiration. It focuses on the structures behind forms and colors that constitute ceramic art. The book also provides images of distinguished ceramic art, along with descriptions of their history, techniques, and concepts described, and will serve as an engaging and essential resource for t...
Included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's comprehensive collections are many smaller ones that illustrate facets of the intriguing history of styles and techniques. It is with a view to making these sometimes subtle qualities more widely known that with this summary handbook of eighteenth-century Italian porcelain we inaugurate a new publishing venture-a series of informative, well-illustrated, and accessible guides. The earliest European porcelain was made in Florence under the patronage of...
Eighteenth-Century Ceramics (Studies in Design and Material Culture)
by Sarah Richards
Using documents, diaries, novels and conventions of the time, this volume describes the social uses and cultural meanings of fine ceramics in the 18th century: porcelain, blue and white earthenware and creamwares. Rather than placing the objects themselves at the centre, this approach focuses on the people who used, criticized, sold and stole them, and investigates the impact these products had on the practical and imaginative lives of the 18th-century middle class. These "middling sort" of peop...
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum - Fascicule 6
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...
Ash glaze, as the name suggests, is a glaze derived from ashes. The earliest such glazes can be traced back to the Shang period in China (c. 1500 B.C.), and it is thought they were produced accidentally, the result of white-hot wood ash being carried through the kiln with the draft of the fire and settling onto the pots, where the searing white heat melted it to a glass. Three thousand years later, wood ash remains an important and immensely popular feature of pottery glaze making. For the moder...
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...
The Hale Collection of Tohoku Ceramics
by Philip Hughes, Jane Wilkinson, and David Hale
This is a glorious overview of the human figure as it has appeared on or in ceramic form from prehistoric times up to the present. The human form was one of the earliest images to appear in artwork, and with ceramics it took various forms - sometimes drawn on the surface, sometimes made into the shape of a vessel and sometimes made into a statue. In this book Betty Blandino looks at how artists from all over the world have tackled this subject. The result is a fascinating and beautiful survey of...
This text contains new information and illustrations for major windows in Britain and overseas, including North America, in churches and art galleries. The illustrations include cartoons as well as close-up details of the glass. The "Places to Visit" identifies the artists and provides telephone numbers for many little-known churches with major windows.
Underworld - Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting
What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. For mere mortals, ritual and religion offered possibilities for ensuring a happy existence in the beyond, and some of the richest evidence for beliefs about death comes from southern Italy, where the local Italic peo...
Ceramic Design
Exuberant, ornate and colourful, Straits Chinese porcelain is a variety of polychrome enameled export ware made to specification in China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the use of the Straits-born Chinese or Peranakan communities in Penang, Malacca and Singapore. Often called Nyonya ware after the Nyonyas or womenfolk of this unique subcategory of Chinese whose ancestors first settled in Malacca in the fifteenth century, it was used on festive occasions and for special f...
Catawba Indian Pottery (Contemporary American Indian Studies)
by Thomas J Blumer
When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors. In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of those documented ceramics to the lineage of their p...
Faience Et Porcelaine De Marseille Xviie Siecle
This publication is a catalogue of Korean ceramics from the distinguished collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, highlighting some of the finest achievements in the East Asian ceramic tradition. The book features nearly 70 celadon wares from the Koryo period (918-1392) and a smaller group of punch'ong and porcelain wares from the Choson period (1392-1910). The introductory essay examines the production and consumption of celadon wares during the Koryo dynasty, focusing on...