Item 11284
 
Coming  to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful reference book: Ceramics in America, Edited by Robert Hunter. Chipstone 2001.  Softcover.  292 pages. 
 
This yearly journal chronicles the place of ceramics in American History.  Highly regarded.  
 
Table of Contents

Potsherds and Pragmatism: One Collector's Perspective - Ivor Nol 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

NEW DISCOVERIES Journey of Discovery: A Retrospective - Charlotte Wilcoxen
The Double Dish Dilemma - Jacqueline Pearce and Beverly Straube
A Rediscovery at The New York Historical Society - Margaret K. Hofer
Seventeenth-Century Donyatt Pottery in the Chesapeake - Taft Kiser
All in the Family: A Staffordshire Soup Plate and the American Market - Robert Hunter and George L. Miller
Industrial Pottery in the Old Edgefield District - Carl Steen
A Spectacular Find at the Joseph Gregory Baynham Pottery Site - Mark M. Newell
Enoch Wood Ceramics Excavated in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent - Catherine Banks
A Warner House Search... - Joyce Geary Volk
And the Find! - Louise Richardson
Eighteenth-Century Stoneware Kiln of William Richards Found on the Lamberton Waterfront, Trenton, New Jersey - Richard Hunter

Good Condition.  A crease in the binding and a lost title page. Otherwise, as made. 
 
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