Ceramics in America 2024 [Hardcover]

Explores new research on American ceramics, featuring topics from Thomas Commeraws pottery to porcelain figures linked to George Washington.Ceramics in America 2024 continues to publish new research on ceramics made, used, or collected in America. Articles in this issue include several on Thomas Commeraw, the free Black potter working in New York from about 1797 to 1819; a newly-discovered French porcelain figure that belonged to George Washington that descended in an African American family; new discoveries about porcelain figures of characters from Uncle Toms Cabin; the long history of face vessels in America; how a baby squirrel inspired a collection of tin-glazed earthenware.A. Brandt Zipp, Putting Thomas Commeraw Together Again: A Brief Meditation on Two Decades of ResearchLeslie M. Harris, New York City in the Era of Thomas CommerawMark Shapiro, Making a Commeraw JugChris Pickerell, The Early American Oyster JarMargi Hofer and Allison Robinson, Collecting CommerawPatricia F. Ferguson, Slave candlesticks: British patronage and racism in the mid-18th centuryCassandra A. Good and Adam T. Erby, La Peinture: The Rediscovery of George and Martha Washingtons Presidential Biscuit Porcelain Figures and their Incredible ProvenanceC. Wesley Cowan and Stephen C. Compton, A Rare Colored Republicing Club CoolerRobert Hunter, About Face VesselsJill Weitzman Fenichell, New Findings of Figural Porcelains that Feature Characters from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms CabinRonald W. Fuchs II, A Worcester Parian Figure of Little Eva Reading the Bible to Uncle TomLeslie Bouterie and Angelika Kuettner, The Landing of Lafayette in WilliamsburgAl Luckenbach, Squirrel Iconography on Early Delftware: The Genesis of a Ceramic CollectionUS