Hunter, Robert (editor) — Ceramics in America 2001

Milwaukee, WI, Chipstone Foundation / University Press of New England, 2001. Softbound. Brown & color illustrated wraps. 292 pp. illustrated with bw and color illustrations and figures. The 2001 of this interdisciplinary journal examining the role of historical ceramics in an American context contains more than twenty papers on various aspects of early modern pottery. Articles: Potsherds and pragmatism: one collector's perspective / Ivor Noël Hume -- Magical, mythical, practical, and sublime: the meanings and uses of ceramics in America / Ann Smart Martin -- European ceramics in the new world: the Jamestown example / Beverly Straube -- "The usual classes of useful articles": Staffordshire ceramics reconsidered / David Barker -- Dots, dashes and squiggles: early English slipware technology / Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter -- Slip decoration in the age of industrialization / Don Carpentier and Jonathan Rickard -- How creamware got the blues: the origins of china glaze and pearlware / George L. Miller and Robert Hunter -- American Queensware -- the Louisville experience, 1829-1837 / Diana and J Garrison Stradling -- An adventure with early English pottery / Troy D. Chappell. VG .