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      Rob Hunter has again produced another great addition to the ceramics

and archaeological literature with the publication of Ceramics in America

2008.  I am blowing my own horn here because our article “War and Pots: the

Impact of Economics and Politics on Ceramic Consumption Patterns” is in

this volume. As with past volumes, this one has superb color photographs by

Gavin Ashworth.



      Now in its eighth year of publication, Ceramics in America is

considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the

American context and is intended for collectors, historical archaeologists,

curators, decorative arts students, social historians, and contemporary

potters.   The 2008 volume of Ceramics in America features articles on

eighteenth-century New York and New Jersey salt-glazed stoneware, a

fascinating ceramic cargo from the “Blue China Wreck”, nineteenth-century

ceramic consumption patterns in the Anglo-American merchant trade, and

commemorative ceramics made for the 1907, 1957, and 2007 anniversaries of

the founding of Jamestown, Virginia.  Included are many additional articles

detailing important new discoveries in the ceramic field, scholarly reviews

of recently published ceramic books, and a bibliography of ceramics

publications for 2007.



      I would like to point out that the New York stonewares from the

African Burial Ground were lost because the laboratory for that project was

in the New York World Trade Towers that were destroyed by the terrorists on

September 11, 2001.  Fortunately, Meta had them photographed by Rob Tucher,

so this information has been preserved.



      Another notable contribution is by Neil Ewins who used a sales

ledger, an account book and a daybook from Cork and Edge, a mid-size

Staffordshire potter, dating from 1848 to1867, to examine the marketing of

their wares.  The distribution map showing the location of Cork and Edge’s

customers in England, Europe, North America, Australia and the West Indies

is most revealing.  Neal uses some of that data in an attempt to document

when American tastes in ceramics departed from those of English consumers.



      “Ceramics from the ‘Blue China’ Wreck” by Hawk Tolson, Ellen Gerth,

and Neil Cunningham Dobson will be controversial to some because a

commercial company salvaged the wreck.  It was over 1000 feet below sea

level and discovered by a stoneware jar showing up in a trawler’s drag net.

The photographs of the ceramic part of the cargo are pretty amazing, as

most of the pieces appear to be intact.  According to the authors, the

pristine nature of the deposit is being badly disturbed by continued

commercial fishing activity, so they decided to salvage a larger sample of

the ceramics and glass artifacts.  Unfortunately, nothing from the wreck or

historical documentation has been able to identify the wreck or when it

went down.  The ideal situation for wreck assemblages is to know the date

that it occurred and thus the site would date the artifacts.  In this case,

the artifacts date the wreck.  The ceramics are well described with

excellent photographs.



      Sumpter Priddy III and Joan Quinn’s article on the Monroe Punch Bowl

owned by the James Monroe Memorial Foundation is a wonderful piece of

historical research on how the bowl came about. It also documents the use

of the lithographic process being used on French porcelain a good twenty to

thirty years before the Staffordshire potters were using lithographic

prints.  This article is an excellent read.



The journal can be ordered directly from Antiques Collectors Club

http://www.antique-acc.com/ for $65.00.   However, Amazon is currently

having a great price at $40.95!!!!



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Here is the Table of Contents:



Introduction by Robert Hunter



The Eighteenth-Century New Jersey Stoneware Potteries of Captain James

Morgan and the Kemple Family by Arthur F. Goldberg, Peter Warwick, and

Leslie Warwick



New York City Stonewares from the African Burial Ground by Meta F. Janowitz



War and Pots: The Impact of Economics and Politics on Ceramic Consumption

Patterns by George L. Miller and Amy C. Earls



Comparative Studies in Anglo-American Ceramic Demand by Neil Ewins



Robert H. Miller, Importer: Alexandria and St. Louis by Barbara H. Magid



Ceramics from the “Blue China” Wreck by Hawk Tolson, Ellen Gerth, and Neil

Cunningham Dobson



A Monroe Punch Bowl and American Lithographers in Paris, 1814–1824 by

Sumpter Priddy III and Joan Quinn



It’s Quarter to Twelve . . . and Way Too Late by Richard Prowse



A Long Way to Lug a Jug by Ivor Noël Hume



“A Magnificent Failure”: Ceramic Souvenirs of the 1907 Jamestown

Tercentennial Exposition by Sam Margolin



Fit for a Queen by Ivor Noël Hume



New Discoveries Column

Introduction by Merry Abbitt Outlaw



A Roman Oil Lamp Illuminates Seventeenth-Century Jamestown by Beverly A.

Straube



An Unusual Red Earthenware Capuchine from London by Jacqueline Pearce



Off the Shelf—a Footnote for English Delftware by Troy D. Chappell



Three Incised Mid-Eighteenth-Century Vessels from Philadelphia by Mara

Kaktins and David G. Orr



Indian at Stenton: A Trail Left in Slip on a Redware Bowl by Laura C. Keim

with David G. Orr



A Sighting of the New Jersey Devil on a Stoneware Jug by Peter Warwick and

Leslie Warwick



An Early Long Island Pot by Christopher H. Pickerell



Long Island Teapots? by Anthony W. Butera Jr., Robert S. Kissam, and

Reginald H. Metcalf



An Early Anna Pottery Pig Flask by Suzanne Findlen Hood



The Smith/Fulper Stoneware Pottery Site in the Borough of Flemington, New

Jersey by

William B. Liebeknecht, Nadine Sergejeff, and Rebecca White



The “Filtre Chamberland”: A Late-Nineteenth-Century Water Filter by Glenn

Farris



Ligowsky’s Red Clay “Mud Saucers” by William B. Liebeknecht



A Step Back in Time: Don Carpentier and the Ceramic Workshops at Historic

Eastfield Foundation by Merry Abbitt Outlaw



Book Reviews edited by Amy C. Earls



Harold Holdway, 20th Century Ceramic Designer, Harold Holdway and Ruth

Holdway; review by Gordon Elliott



The Origin and Development of Bow Porcelain, 1730–1747, Including the

Participation of the Royal Society, Andrew Duché, and the American

Contribution, Pat Daniels; review by Anton Gabszewicz



Painted in Blue: Underglaze Blue Painted Earthenwares, 1775–1810, Lois

Roberts; review by Robert Hunter



The Historical Archaeology of Pottery: Supply and Demand in the Lower

Rhineland, ad 1400–1800; An Archaeological Study of Ceramic Production,

Distribution, and Use in the City of Duisburg and Its Hinterland, David R.

M. Gaimster; review by Taft Kiser



Pots and Potters in Tudor Hampshire, Jacqueline Pearce, with contributions

by Anthony Grey and Peter Tipton and petrology report by Alan Vince; review

by Beverly A. Straube



Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770–1939, Jonathan Rickard; review by

Lynne Sussman



Creamware and Pearlware Re-examined, Tom Walford and Roger Massey, eds.;

review by George L. Miller



Checklist of Resources: Publications on Ceramics for 2007 compiled by Amy

C. Earls



Peace,

George L. Miller

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