Ceramics in America 2019 [Hardcover]

The 2019 edition of Ceramics in America will feature groundbreaking discoveries for students of American ceramic history. 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. Reconstructive drawings of two of Americas most important potteries and their kilns are illustrated and discussed: the William Rogers Pottery of Yorktown, Virginia (ca. 17201745), and the massive stoneware kilns of Abner Landrums Pottersville factory in Edgefield, South Carolina (ca. 18181840). 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 presentation on clay tobacco pipes made in the Chesapeake region of America between 1640 and 1660, highlighting the pipe makers art and the multicultural circumstance of their manufacture and use.This 2019 volume offers a diverse range of essays, new discoveries, and book reviews on the latest research of interest to ceramics scholars.The Search for the GreenGlaze Potter of PhiladelphiaDeborah MillerGeochemistry of 18th-Century Hard-Paste Porcelain Artifacts Excavated in PhiladelphiaJ. Victor Owen, Evan M. Owen, John D. Greenough, Deborah Miller, Brandon Boucher, and Robert HunterRonald W. Fuchs II One of the Earliest Pieces of Chinese Porcelain in VirginiaRonald W. Fuchs IIA Manhattan-Made Native American Portrait JugRobert HunterEighteenth-Century Boston Stoneware: Appealing to a Local MarketLorraine GermanThe Picture of the Old PotteryBenjamin B. Edmands, transcription by Lorraine GermanVisualizing the Stoneware Potteries of William Rogers of Yorktown and Abner Landrum of PottersvilleRobert Hunter and Oliver Mueller HeubachCreolization of the Northeastern Woodland American Clay Stemmed Tobacco PipeTaft Kiser and Al LuckenbachMaking Pipes: Experiments to Learn Tlã-