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The Encyclopedia of American Art Tiles
Over 4500 images appear in this beautiful and comprehensive, four-volume set. This massive compilation reveals the great diversity and intrinsic beauty of art tiles produced across the length and breadth of the United States from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Tile installations of great beauty include panels, individual tiles, and inserts adorning building facades, interiors, furniture, and garden ornaments. These volumes explore the wildly varying themes and distinctive art styles of six regions of the nation. Among the 161 companies represented are A. E. Hull, American Encaustic, Brayton Laguna, California Art Tile, Catalina Pottery, Flint Faience, Gladding McBean, Grueby, Marblehead, Newcomb, Niloak, Pacific Clay Products, Rookwood, Saturday Evening Girls, and Weller.
The text includes tile identification as well as valuable advice on collecting art tiles, a glossary, an index, and bibliography. This set is an essential reference for all who are fascinated with the ceramic arts.
ISBN: 0764322311
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10895
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THE SECOND BOOK OR ROOKWOOD POTTERY BY HERBERT PECK
First Edition. Hard Cover. 8 ½ by 11. Extensively illustrated with 185 pages. Cover Complete Art Pottery Shape Catalogs No. 1 and No. 2 with over 4,000 Rookwood shapes illustrated. Many facts not found in the original history of Rookwood.Includes complete Rookwood shapes from No. 1, produced in 1880, to No. 7301, the last numbered shape made in 1967. More than 100 photographs from the "Original Shape Record.
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10903
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Hall China Tea and Coffee Pots by Gary & Paula Barnebey
This is the greatest collection of tea and coffee pots, beverage sets, and hot water pots, made by the prolific Hall China Company ever displayed in a single volume! From the company's establishment in 1903 until today, Hall China, of East Liverpool, Ohio, has produced a vast array of innovative pots in forms and with decorations that kept up with the times. Many are displayed here among 845 beautiful color photos. Included are early gold and platinum decorations; the "Art Deco," "Novelty," "Victorian," and Brilliant series; early decals; Gold Label; 1960s decorations; special shapes made for various companies including Lipton Tea, McCormick Tea, and others; and designs by renowned artist Eva Zeisel.
The informative text includes vessel shapes, sizes, colors, and historical information, along with a detailed bibliography, a Names Cross Reference, and values in the captions.
ISBN: 076432196x
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Illustrations: 845 color photos
Pages: 240
Binding: Hard Cover
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10900
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Bawdy Bisques and Naughty Novelty by Sharon Weintraub
As the Victorian era passed into the Edwardian and Roaring Twenties, a market developed for bisque and china naughty novelties and figurines of women in revealing outfits. These little lovelies include bathing beauties, who came clad in swimsuits of real lace or stylish painted beach wear, as well as mermaids, harem ladies, and nudies, who wear only an engaging smile. Also produced were flippers (innocent appearing figurines who reveal a bawdy secret when flipped over) and water squirters. Most were manufactured in Germany from the late 1800s through the 1930s, often showing remarkable artistry and imagination.
This photographic study showcases an extraordinary variety of figurines, and the in-depth text will help collectors and dealers discover the rich history behind them. Manufacturing techniques, marks, and manufacturers are discussed, including Galluba and Hoffman, William Goebel, Hertwig and Company, Schafer and Vater, and more. Decorative details, size, and current value are provided for each figurine. A delightful reference for bathing beauty and doll collectors, Art Deco aficionados, and all who enjoy things naughty and mischievous.
ISBN: 076432215X
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Illustrations: 410 color photos
Pages: 208
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10854
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The Collectors Encyclopedia of Roseville Pottery by Sharon & Bob Huxford
The Huxfords are wonderful authors that have offered, collectors of Roseville Art Pottery, a basic foundation for identifying various Roseville lines. No one author [I personally author a mid-year price guide]has all the answers, but each of us attempt to add to the ongoing data base. The Huxford volumes are an essential tool for Roseville collectors and Dealers.
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Royal Copenhagen by H.V.F. Winstone
Of all the great European ceramic houses, Royal Copenhagen has over the years proved the most loyal yet brilliant custodian of the potter's art. No other European factory has survived for so long and yet sustained such artistic distinction in earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. Its special quality has always been contemporary excellence balanced by healthy respect for its distinguished tradition. And so today it stands as a guardian of the past, still producing works of art that are bywords in the history of porcelain manufacture - such as the 'Immortelle' decorated series, and the fabulous Flora Danica - and yet its influence on the development of modern ceramics is unsurpassed.
In Royal Copenhagen V H F Winstone charts with elegance and scholarship the progress of the Royal House from its official inception in 1775 through the hazards of Court intrigue and the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars to its current preeminence. The many magnificent colour illustrations bear witness to the extraordinary range of Royal Copenhagen's technical virtuosity. They illustrate the influence the porcelain house has had on the development and direction of European art. Royal Copenhagen provides an informative, entertaining and visually beautiful account of Copenhagen ceramics. Its detailed captions and appendices contain much valuable information on artists, techniques, factory marks and the clays used. It is an indispensable source of reference for collectors'.
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European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"A catalogue of the Museum's collection of European portrait miniatures, dating from the early 16th century to about 1850.
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (January 1, 1997)
ISBN: 0300086040
Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.0 pounds
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10815
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POT-LIDS, AND OTHER COLOURED PRINTED STAFFORDSHIRE WARES REFERENCE & PRICE
Written by K.V. Mortimer.
The first book on this subject for over 20 years, classifies all known authenticated pot-lids by subject, lists their many variations & sizes, accesses their rarity and value and provides much new information on their history and contents. Errors & omissions in the earlier literature have been corrected and the whole listing has been renumbered to avoid the anomalies caused by the absence of flexibility in the old system.
Every lid has been measured so that all size categories can be accurately defined and rarity has been gauged as accurately as possible by an examination of nearly all auction catalogs from 1924-2002. For the first time virtually every item is featured in full color.
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10629
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Flint Faience Tiles - A-Z
Flint Faience Tiles A - Z
Price: $69.95
Margaret Carney & Ken Galvas
Flint Faience Tiles A - Z
Book Details
ISBN: 0764320408
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Illustrations: 808 color and 24 b/w photos
Pages: 288
Binding: Hard Cover
This stunning new book, arranged alphabetically by subject areas, captures the essence of the successful Flint Faience Tile Company's highly diversified production between 1921-33 in Flint, Michigan. The history of this ceramic tile company, its major designers, and the designs and styles of its products are woven throughout a tapestry of more than 825 color photos illustrating both rare and popular tiles. Showcased are Art Deco and Arts & Crafts style tiles, animal and nursery rhyme designs, geometric motifs, plants and flowers, dramatic murals, and much more. Many sections feature photo documentation of these collectible tiles installed in homes, schools, churches, restaurants, swimming pools, and more. Present day values are provided in the captions. This fascinating and informative A to Z collector's book is a valuable addition to the library resources of any tile and ceramics collector or maker.
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10712
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Joseph Kishere and the Mortlake Potteries by J. Howarth & etal
Joseph Kishere and the Mortlake Potteries
Jack Howarth and Robin Hildyard
Published by Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN No: 1 85149 462 6
Size: 279 x 216mm
160 pp 63 col. & 43 b&w illustrations
Hardbound
This fascinating volume provides the definitive history of the small but important Mortlake pottery established by Joseph Kishere in the late eighteenth-century. It focuses on the working life of Kishere and his stoneware products.
The book is based on the writings and research of Robin Hildyard, Jack Howarth and the late John Eustace Anderson. Each of the contributors brings a different but complementary perspective to the subject. Anderson’s book A Short Account of the Mortlake Potteries was published in 1894, some fifty years after the closure of both potteries. His material relied heavily on the fading memories of local residents, in particular one or two surviving members of the Kishere family.
Combining an artistic, commercial and historical approach, Robin Hildyard’s ‘Stoneware’ section gives a comprehensive overview of the English salt-glaze potteries and identifies Joseph Kishere’s niche in a very competitive market. The style and range of his products, from the origin of the potworks to the final closure, are described in detail and fully illustrated.
The third contribution, from Jack Howarth provides an insight into the history of the Kishere pottery by tracing Joseph Kishere’s ancestry back to the earliest contacts between his father, Benjamin, and John Sanders when both families resided in Lambeth.
Joseph Kishere and the Mortlake Potteries updates and expands the story, bringing Joseph Kishere’s role to a far wider audience.
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10670
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Godden's Guide to English Blue & White Porcelain - NEW
Godden’s Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain
Geoffrey A. Godden F.R.S.A
Published by Antique Collectors' Club
Size: 8 1/2 x 11 ins
464pp 153 col. & 750 b&w illustrations
Hardbound
This is the first major book on English blue and white porcelain since the early 1970s. Not only is it the latest and most up-to-date work, but it includes types not previously studied and extends the range of wares into the early years of the nineteenth-century. It is a unique, comprehensive study.
The number of instructive illustrations exceeds seven hundred, including helpful comparison photographs and details of identifying features – footrims, handle forms, manufacturing characteristics and marks.
Apart from introductory chapters on collecting blue and white and on the introduction and development of this popular mode of decoration, this unique coverage comprises details of over twenty distinct makes, including the relatively newly researched eighteenth century factories at Isleworth, Limehouse and Vauxhall. The inclusion of the several post– 1790 factories covers new ground. The section on fakes and reproductions will also prove instructive and helpful.
Guidance is given on the popularity of the various types in the market and on past and more recent prices paid for specimens in the London auction rooms. Particular attention has been directed at the three large sales of the late Dr. Bernard Watney’s world renowned collection, held by Messrs. Phillips in 1999 and 2000. General estimates of market values are also offered.
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Derby Porcelain 1748-1848 by John Twitchett
This new book contains a good deal of new information and a large quantity of hitherto unpublished illustrations. Much of the documentary evidence is also published for the first time and a good deal of further material is included to be made available to a far wider readership.
The author deals comprehensively with the Nottingham Road, Derby factory, its staff and its wares with detailed biographies on anyone and everyone connected with production and sales during the period of 1748-1848.
The contents are as follows:
History of Derby
Marks
People associated with Derby
Production materials and techniques
Subject matter, modelled or painted, & Patterns
Usage - classifications by type of product
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English Dry-Bodied Stoneware Wedgwood & Contemporary Mfrs 1774-1830
English Dry-Bodied Stoneware Wedgwood & Contemporary Mfrs 1774-1830 by Diana Edwards & Rodney Hampson
English dry-bodied stoneware was the ultimate ceramic expression of the neoclassical wave which erupted in England and on the Continent in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially basalt commanded the scene, with its imposing black stoneware forms imitating Greek vases. However, it was Wedgwood’s invention of the jasper body which was to be the tour de force associated with his name. Wedgwood’s jasper vases, purchased by gentry and nobility alike, were soon imitated by a myriad of potters.
This book is the first to explore the vast subject of English dry-bodied stoneware with discussions on the antecedents of the eighteenth century neoclassical wares, the red stonewares of the seventeenth century, as well as the other bodies produced by Wedgwood and his contemporaries: caneware, white felspathic stoneware and, of course, the flagship of the Wedgwood name, jasper.
The authors have, for the first time, utilised Wedgwood’s surviving sales records from 1774-1794 and these have made it possible to allow for more specific dating of body types and forms as they correspond to the Wedgwood Shapes Books.
Three hundred and fifty black and white illustrations with seventy-five colour plates, many shown here for the first time, provide an invaluable guide to the identification of these wares. Detailed research into the more than sixty other potteries concerned with the production of these handsome, ornamental and useful stonewares, makes this the most comprehensive reference book ever produced on the subject.
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The Dictionary of Minton by Paul Atterbury & Maureen Batkin
This volume is the first complete history of the famous Minton company, its wares, artists and decorators, and is destined to become the standard work of reference for collectors and dealers. The authors chart the triumphs, the solid achievements, the successes and failures of this outstanding company which employed some of the most famous names in nineteenth century ceramics history, including the two French giants, Arnoux and Salon, and rose to heights of international eminence unknown by any other ceramics manufacturer since Wedgwood.
The fortunes of the illustrious firm of Minton founded in the late eighteenth century, were inextricably linked with the characters and qualities of three men: Thomas Minton, the founder, his son Herbert, and Colin Minton Campbell. From modest beginnings as a pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Minton became one of the world’s leading ceramics companies. With the introduction of bone china c.1800, the company prospered, and under the leadership of Herbert Minton, with his innovatory ideas and successful experiments in tile and Parian production, its future was assured. Herbert Minton exemplified all the best virtues of Victorian paternalism and philanthropy.
Extensive researches into the Minton Archives have provided fascinating insights into the personalities concerned with the running of the business. The considerable biographical material has been used in the section devoted to the artists and their work; a separate section covers the vast range of wares made at Minton over 190 years of production.
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20th Century Ceramic Designers in Britain by Andrew Casey
Throughout the twentieth century certain British ceramic designers have made an outstandingly influential contribution to the pottery industry.
Against a backdrop of great artistic, economic and social change their ability to anticipate and to respond to the latest trends in art and design enabled them to lead the pottery market, rather than follow. In responding to the practical needs of the customer their work proved popular and commercial in its day and is now much sought afterby collectors. Whilst many of the featured designers were most prolific and celebrated during the period between the wars, this publication also covers the austerity years of the forties and fifties. It then takes us through the innovative and expansive sixties and seventies, right up to the end of the century.
This work, the first major study of its kind, concentrates on those pioneering designers who attempted to improve the quality of both shape and decoration by creating modern tableware designs that were contemporary, practical and attractive. Some of the designers such as Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper have established reputations and there are many other important figures such as Keith Murray, John Clappison and Truda Carter.
Each chapter gives an individual detailed account of each particular designer's contribution to pottery design and discusses their background, influences and how they attained the position. The text is supported by high quality colour and black and white archive images, some hitherto unpublished.
The designers discussed are: Daisy Makeig-Jones, Charlotte Rhead, Clarice Cliff, Truda Carter, Susie Cooper, Eric Slater, Millicent Taplin, VictorSkellern, Keith Murray, Eric Ravilious, Alfred Read, Jessie Tait, KathieWinkle, John Clappison, Eve Midwinter, Robert Jefferson and Susan Williams-Ellis.
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