| Description |
xii, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Hunter -- "Many new and beautiful designs" : salvage archaeology at the Philadelphia and Boston Face Brick Company / Mark Nonestied and Richard Veit -- From Santa Fe to Mettlach : Pueblo pottery and "curiosities" in the Villeroy and Boch Keramikmuseum / Charlotte Jacob-Hanson -- Martha Washington's "United States china" : a new link found in a family notebook / Hannah Boettcher and Ronald W. Fuchs II -- A Chinese export service ordered for Thomas Jefferson : in rei memoriam / James Boswell -- The Cape Coast Castle platter / Jo Dahn -- Ceramics displayed at the annual exhibitions of American manufacturing at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1824-1858 / Tom Folk -- My quest for a rare Dutch black delftware teapot / Joseph P. Gromacki with Robert Aronson, Sarah Stroud Clarke, and Michelle Erickson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The 2020 volume of Ceramics in America is a celebration of the depth and diversity of ceramics used in the American context. Beautifully illustrated articles explore the making of ornamental building bricks and the role of manufactured tableware in promoting issues of social equality and global injustices. The important history of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute in fostering domestic ceramics manufacturing in the United States is reviewed. A thrilling narrative recounts and archaeological discovery of an exotic "black delft" teapot from Charleston's Drayton Hall and subsequent pursuit of an extremely rare antique parallel. Other articles include significant new findings concerning Martha Washington's and Thomas Jefferson's Chinese porcelains, and a surprising account of Pueblo pottery collected by the Villeroy & Boch Company of Mettlach, Germany in the late nine-teenth century. |
| Subject |
Pottery -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Hunter, Robert (Robert R.), editor.
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Fuchs, Ronald W., editor.
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Chipstone Foundation.
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| ISBN |
0986385786 |
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9780986385780 |
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