Now in its ninth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context.
The 2009 volume presents new research related to the rich and varied earthenware production in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Moravian settlements of Bethabara and Salem, North Carolina. Setting a new standard for American ceramic studies, this transdisciplinary effort draws on archaeology, art history, social history, religion, ceramic technology, and many other areas of inquiry resulting in a substantively revised history of this much-admired North Carolina pottery tradition. Many examples of highly decorative slipware and intriguing figural bottles are illustrated for the first time with color photography by Gavin Ashworth.
Table of Contents
Editorial Statement –Robert Hunter
Preface –Jonathan Prown, Lee L. French, and Martha Parker
Introduction –Robert Hunter
Acknowledgments –Luke Beckerdite and Robert Hunter
Eighteenth-Century Earthenware from North Carolina: The Moravian Tradition Reconsidered –Luke Beckerdite and Johanna Brown
Staffordshire in America: The Wares of John Bartlam at Cain Hoy, 1765-1770 –Lisa Hudgins
Staffordshire Ceramics in Wachovia –Robert Hunter
Tradition and Adaptation in Moravian Press-Molded Earthenware –Johanna Brown
Salem Pottery after 1834: Heinrich Schaffner and Daniel Krause –Michael O. Hartley
The Mount Shepherd Pottery Site, Randolph County, North Carolina –Alain C. Outlaw
Making a Moravian Faience Ring Bottle –Robert Hunter and Michelle Erickson
Making a Moravian Squirrel Bottle –Michelle Erickson, Robert Hunter, and Caroline M. Hannah
Selected References
Index
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About the Author:
Editor ROBERT HUNTER is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an archaeologist and ceramic historian living in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was the founding director of the Center for Archaeological Research at The College of William and Mary, and served on the curatorial staff at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Co-editor LUKE BECKERDITE is editor of American Furniture and a decorative arts scholar living in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Review:
"Beautifully produced and edited, Ceramics in America is the definitive publication on the subject-and a model for scholarship on historical material culture of all kinds." (Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research, Victoria and Albert Museum)
"With gorgeous illustrations and keen insights from leading ceramic historians, collectors, and archeological colleagues, Ceramics in America is truly the sort of treasure that archaeologists seek." (Mary C. Beaudry, Department of Archaeology, Boston University)
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