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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!!!!
For Further Info see www.chipstone.org
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
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