Collector's Encyclopodia of Red Wing Art Pottery
by B.L. Dollen and R.L. Dollen
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...
Brick chimneys, chimney-pots and roof and ridge tiles have been a feature of the roofs of a wide range of buildings since the late Middle Ages. In the first instance this ceramic roofware was functional - to make the roof weatherproof and to provide an outlet for smoke - but it could also be very decorative. The practical and ornamental aspects of ceramic roofware can still be seen throughout Britain, particularly on buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Not only do these often have...
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...
Real Women Barbeque With A Kiln On Labor Day Weekend
by Rosie Lambert a
Ceramic Projects
Tiling and Mosaics in a Weekend (In a Weekend (Betterway Books)) (In a Weekend (Journey Editions))
by Deena Beverley
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...
Etruscan Red-figure Vase Painting
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...
Eighteenth Century French Porcelain (Ashmolean Handbooks S., No 9)
by Aileen Dawson
The Ashmolean Museum's collection of French porcelain is remarkable both for several individual pieces from famous collections, and also for the way in which it demonstrates the development in porcelain in France from the late seventeenth century onwards. This book illustrates and discusses in detail over fifty of the most attractive, rare and important pieces in the collection, from eight known factories, including Vincennes/Sevres, St. Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy and Villeroy. Aileen Dawson is a...
