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Book SynopsisAt 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.
Table of ContentsArticles; Fragile Lessons: Ceramic and Porcelain Representations of Uncle Tom's Cabin; Jill Weitzman Fenichell; Commemorative Wares in George Washington's Hometown; Barbara H. Magid; Rediscovering the New Brunswick Stoneware Pottery (c. 1862-1901); Richard Velt and Judson M. Kratzer; Rockett's Red Glare: J.P. Schermerhorn and the Early Richmond Stoneware Industry; Kurt C. Russ and W. Sterling Schermerhorn; Understanding Nineteenth-Century Eastern Virginia Stoneware; Kurt C. Russ and Robert Hunter; Benjamin DuVal & Co.'s Richmond Stoneware Manufactory; Robert Hunter and Marshall Goodman; The Mansion Pottery; Barbara J. Gundy and Deborah Casselberry; John Bacon: Prince of Stoneware Pottery? Ivor Noel Hume; New Discoveries; Archaeological Investigations of the Stoneware Kiln of Charles F. Decker in Washington County, Virginia; William Hoffman; Playful Potting: A Miniature Tin-Glazed Earthenware Chair; Sarah Neale Fayen; Sugar Refining Pottery from Alexandria and Baltimore; Barbara H. Magid; Hare Pottery Research; Charles Fithian, Claudia Leister, James Stewart, and Chris Espenshade; Trifles from a Boston Collection; Donna Corbin; What is "What" in St. Mary's City; Silas Hurry; Otto Karle: A Previously unknown Shenandoah Valley Potter; Scott Hamilton Suter; The Diorama Transport Views; Roger Pomfret; Henderson Importers of New Orleans; Amy C. Earls; Crock Series 2003; Lindsay Allington.
