Ceramics in America 2001

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in ceramics is at an all-time high. As a vehicle for much needed synthesis, Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Intended for collectors, historical archeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historian and contemporary potters, this third issue features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews for this diverse audience.

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

BOOK REVIEWSThe Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Leslie B. Grigsby, with contributions by Michael Archer, Margaret MacFarlane, and Jonathan Horne - John C. Austin
John Dwight's Fulham Pottery, Excavations 1971-79, Chris Green - Norman F. Barka
I made this jar . . .&#8221The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, Jill Beute Koverman, editor - Meta F. Janowitz
Spode's Willow Pattern and Other Designs After the Chinese, Robert Copeland - Patricia M. Samford
The Liverpool Porcelain of William Reid: A Catalogue of Porcelain and Excavated Shards, Maurice Hillis and Roderick Jellicoe - Janine E. Skerry
Godden's Guide to Ironstone, Stone, &#38Granite Wares, Geoffrey A. Godden, F.R.S.A - Jean Wetherbee
A Passion for Pottery: Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection, Peter Williams and Pat Halfpenny - Elizabeth Gusler

Robert Hunter is an archaeologist and ceramics historian ­living in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.