Salt-glazed stoneware in early America
By: Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlan Hood.
Contributors: Hood, Suzanne Findlan, 1975-
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Williamsburg, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780879352400
Subjects: Blue and white stoneware -- United States
Description: "Salt-glazed Stoneware in Early Americachronicles the traditions of stoneware imported from England and Germany as well as the often overlooked work of American potters during the eighteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and documentary sources and featuring objects from Colonial Williamsburg's holdings as well as from more than forty-five public and private collections, the book provides an invaluable overview of the goods found in early America." "More than 300 photos present a wide range of stoneware, whether robustly potted in brown or gray or delicately fashioned in white. The book's broad scope makes Salt-glazed Stoneware in Early America an essential reference for archaeologists, curators, and collectors, and its accessible style will appeal to specialists and nonspecialists alike." --Book Jacket.
Table of contents: title: 1. Treasured possessions and everyday objects : Rhenish brown stoneware; title: 2. Emblems of church and state : Westerwald stoneware; title: 3. Britannia rules the waves : English brown stoneware; title: 4. "Some of the finer kind?" : English white stoneware, Pt. I; title: 5. "Some of the finer kind" : English white stoneware, Pt. II; title: 6. The Scottish connection : the evidence for Scottish stoneware; title: 7. Imitation and independence : Eighteenth-century American stoneware; title: Afterword; title: Appendix A. White salt-glazed stoneware plate borders by Angelika Ruth Kuettner; title: Appendix B. Identification of White salt-glazed stoneware shards using non- destructive Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis (XRF)  / by Helen Stockman-Todd; title: Appendix C. American stoneware potters before 1800 / by William B. Liebeknecht.