North Carolina Pottery Resources

### Books

Call it a selected bibliography if you like, but no one does those anymore, and I don't follow style guides. These are most of the books that can be useful when researching a newly found piece of North Carolina pottery.

* *the potter's eye: art & tradition in north carolina pottery by Mark Hewitt & Nancy Sweezy* covers primarily current North Carolina potters and historic pottery in relation to current potters. If you're looking for information about famous NC potters of the 20th century, like Coles and Aumans, you may find a little, but you won't find much
* *North Carolina and Southern Folk Pottery: A Pictoral Survey by William W. Ivey* is a just what it says on the tin, so don't expect many words, and don't expect to match glazes because the photos are nearly all black and white. Note that the focus is on southern folk pottery, so don't expect any early 20th century art pottery, but do expect plenty of 20th century face jugs and figurals.
* *North Carolina Art Pottery 1900-1960 Identification & Value Guide by A. Everette James* goes into detail about all those famous 20th century NC art potteries and has great color photos so in addition to forms you can match glazes and makers marks, but you'll find only a little in it about NC folk pottery.
* *Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition by Nancy Sweezy* covers primarily the potteries of south in the 20th century including North Carolina, but also Kentucky, Georgia and elsewhere. It includes both art pottery and folk pottery. The photos are primarily black and white but there is some color.
* *The Remarkable Potters of Seagrove: The Folk Pottery of a Legendary North Carolina Community by Charlotte Vestal Brown* is as focused as the title says, but you'll find more in it that most of us would consider art pottery than folk pottery. The pictures are largely color and the era is mostly 20th century.
* *The Traditional Potters of Seagrove, North Carolina: And Surrounding Areas from the 1800s to Present by Robert C. Lock* may sound pretty broad but is pretty narrowly focused on the big NC potting families of the early 20th century. Keep in mind, the "present" in question when it was published was 1994.
* *It's just Dirt! The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolina's Seagrove Region by Stephen C. Compton* is also pretty narrowly focused on the big NC pottery families.
* *Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina by Charles G. Zug III* covers mostly folk pottery in the older style with a bit of the art pottery bit at the end.
* *North Carolina Pottery Earthenware, Stoneware, and Fancyware: Identification and Values by Stephen C. Compton* covers the breadth of NC pottery in nice color photos, but you can forget about the values as its been over a decade, and you won't get much history past the first few pages.
* *North Carolina Pottery: The Collection of the Mint Museum edited by Barbara Stone Perry* largely covers NC pottery from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. The photos are largely color.

### Online

Mostly, go to the facebook groups. You can also have some luck with google image search and online auction sites.

See also:

North Carolina

North Carolina Potters