{"product_id":"ceramics-in-america-2019-9780986385759","title":"Ceramics in America 2019","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2019 volume of Ceramics in America features exciting new discoveries in the field of American ceramics studies, from an early example of Chinese porcelain found in the New World to previously undocumented green-glazed earthenware made in early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia. New analytic information about the manufacture of hard-paste porcelain, also in the Philadelphia context, will be of special interest to students of American porcelain production. Of special note, reconstructive drawings of two of America's most important potteries and their kilns are illustrated and discussed: the William Rogers Pottery of Yorktown, Virginia (ca. 1720-1745), and the massive stoneware kilns of Abner Landrum's Pottersville factory in Edgefield, South Carolina (ca. 1818-1840). Other articles examine topics of American stoneware, including the distinctive eighteenth-century stoneware of Boston and Charlestown, Massachusetts. The journal concludes with a beautifully illustrated two-part presentati\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Search for the Green‑Glaze Potter of Philadelphia, Deborah Miller Geochemistry of 18th-Century Hard-Paste Porcelain Artifacts Excavated in Philadelphia, J. Victor Owen, Evan M. Owen, John D. Greenough, Deborah Miller, Brandon Boucher, and Robert Hunter Ronald W. Fuchs II One of the Earliest Pieces of Chinese Porcelain in Virginia, Ronald W. Fuchs II A Manhattan-Made Native American Portrait Jug, Robert Hunter; Eighteenth-Century Boston Stoneware: Appealing to a Local Market, Lorraine German “The Picture of the Old Pottery”, Benjamin B. Edmands, transcription by Lorraine German Visualizing the Stoneware Potteries of William Rogers of Yorktown and Abner Landrum of Pottersville, Robert Hunter and Oliver Mueller Heubach Creolization of the Northeastern Woodland American Clay Stemmed Tobacco Pipe, Taft Kiser and Al Luckenbach Making Pipes: Experiments to Learn Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, Taft Kiser and Al Luckenbach","brand":"Chipstone Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528689885527,"sku":"9780986385759","price":54.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780986385759.jpg?v=1731872599","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ceramics-in-america-2019-9780986385759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}