Hi Sarah,
Are you looking for materials to help with identification, typology,
and dating? Or with directions for interpretive study?
George's articles are excellent. He and his collaborators have worked
on this material for a long time and those publications are the best
place to start. Following George's teaching, I try not to use the term
pearlware, but because it is so ingrained in the collectors, art
history, and archaeological literature, you have to use it for searches.
You might find a useful visual reference:
John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware: English and Scottish relief
decorated and underglazed coloured earthenware 1780-1840
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61218099
Terrance Lockett has written a bit about pearlware patterns. I bet
you've seen his on-line essay for the Potteries Museum about pearlware
where he mentions the "Chinese House pattern" which was most popular
and while somewhat varied, followed a visual pattern of 'tree-fence-
house-fence-tree'. He explains that other patterns include Chinese
figures with parasols which he asserts were patterned after Chinese
porcelain so-called Cornelius Pronk patterns.
Terrance Lockett and Patricia Halfpenny 1986. Creamware and
Pearlware. Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent,
UK.
The pattern terms from the antiques market can be a bit overwhelming.
You mention that your students have mostly hand painted, stylized
Chinese decoration. Do you have any of the other painted or dipped
ware styles? If so, these will be useful:
From the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab, pictures of
printed ware types:
http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/Post-Colonial%20Ceramics/PaintedWares/index-paintedwares.htm
Sussman, Lynne
1997 Mocha, Banded, Cat’s Eye, and Other Factory-Made Slipware.
Studies in Northeast Historical Archaeology. Number 1. Boston
University, Boston.
Rickard, Jonathan
2006 Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-193. University Press of
New England, Lebanon, NH.
Carpentier, Donald and Jonathan Rickard
2001 Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization. In Ceramics
in America 2001. Edited by Robert Hunter.
Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, pp. 115-134.
On a broader and more interpretive note, I’d point your students in a
couple of different directions depending upon their interest and the
nature of the site- visual culture, orientalism, and design history,
for example. Maybe whiteness studies.
As another source, they could check out:
Priddy, Sumpter
2004 American Fancy; Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840. Chipstone
Foundation, Milwaukee.
If you explain more about the site, I might be able to suggest some
other interpretive sources.
Cheers,
Tim
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:06 PM, George Miller wrote:
> To Sarah and others who might be interested.
>
> There is an extensive discussion of the development of these painted
> wares
> which the potters called "China Glaze" in the following article.
>
> George L. Miller and Robert R. Hunter
> 2001 How Creamware Got the Blues: The Origins of China Glaze and
> Pearlware.
> *Ceramics in America 2001,* pages 135-161, published by Chipstone
> Foundation.
>
> You might also want to look at
>
> George L. Miller and Amy C. Earls
> 2008 War and Pots: The Impact of Economics and Politics on Ceramic
> Consumption Patterns. *Ceramics in America 2008* pages 67-108.
>
> This article has popularity curves for cups, plates and bowls of the
> various
> decorative types from 1806 to 1886 that were generated from 101
> invoices of
> importers selling to the country trade.
>
> Peace,
> George L. Miller
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Sarah Croucher <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
>> I was hoping that someone might be able to help m
>> Dear hist-arch folks
>>
>> I was hoping that someone might be able to help me out with a
>> reference or
>> two. The students in my lab class have just begun to go through and
>> catalog
>> a collection of artifacts dating to the late 18th and 19th centuries,
>> excavated in Middletown, CT. We're finding a lot of sherds of hand
>> painted
>> pearlware, with designs in blue paint in Chinese styles.
>>
>> Are there any particularly good sources that could help my students
>> and I
>> find out more about these specific wares? I have the usual general
>> historical archaeology ceramic references, but I was wondering if
>> there was
>> anything a little more specific.
>>
>> Thanks so much - replies can be sent off list to my work address:
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Best,
>> Sarah Croucher
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Sarah
>> Croucher
>>
>> Assistant
>> Professor
>> Wesleyan
>> University
>> Anthropology
>> Department
>> 281 High
>> Street
>> Middletown,
>> CT 06459
>> USA
>>
>> Telephone:
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