Hunter, Robert (Editor) — Ceramics in America 2005

Milwaukee, Chipstone Foundation, 2005. Softbound. Illustrated wraps. 321 pp. illustrated with bw and color illustrations and figures. The 2005 edition of this interdisciplinary journal examining the role of historical ceramics in an American context. ARTICLES: Introduction - Robert Hunter • A Pot Of Butter For The Victims - George H. Lukacs • Maine's Early-Nineteenth-Century Barrell-Wood Family Jugs and the Remarkable Woman Who Made Them Great - S. Robert Teitelman • John Bacon: Prince of Stoneware Potters? - Ivor Noel Hume • The Destruction of the Benjamin DuVal Stoneware Manufactory, Richmond, Virginia - Robert Hunter and Marshall Goodman • Rocketts' Red Glare: John P. Schermerhorn and the Early Richmond-Area Stoneware Industry - Kurt Russ and W. Sterling Schermerhorn • Distinguishing Marks and Flowering Designs: Baltimore's Utilitarian Stoneware Industry - John E. Kille • Rediscovering the New Brunswick Stoneware Pottery, ca. 1862 to 1902 - Richard Veit and Judson M. Kratzer • The Mansion Pottery - Barbara J. Gundy and Deborah Casselberry • J. Palin Thorely (1892-1987), Potter and Designer: Part I - John C. Austin NEW DISCOVERIES Introduction - Merry Abbitt Outlaw • The Great Wall of Terracotta: A Surprising Ceramic Discovery in South Amboy, New Jersey - Mark Nonestied and Richard Veit • Playful Potting: A Miniature Tin-Glazed Earthenware Chair - Sarah Neale Fayen • Trifles from a Boston Collection - Donna Corbin • This Little Piggy Went to Virginia - Beverly A. Straube • What is "What" in St. Mary's City? - Silas D. Hurry • Sugar Refining Pottery from Alexandria and Baltimore - Barbara H. Magid • Otto Karle: A Previously Unknown Shenandoah Valley Potter - Scott Hamilton Suter • The Stoneware Kiln of Charles F. Decker in Washington County, Virginia - William Hoffman • Bell Family Presentation Jar - John E. Kille • Hare Pottery Research - Charles Fithian, Claudia Leister, James Stewart, and Chris Espenshade • The Diorama Transport Views - Roger Pomfret • 1830s Painted Wares from a New Orleans Importer - Amy C. Earls and George L. Miller • The John Dortch Site: Anglo Elegance on the Spanish Louisiana Frontier - Sara A. Hahn. Fine interior but with light rubbing to back cover.