At the beginning of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in ceramics is at an all-time high. As a vehicle for much-needed synthesis, Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters, every issue features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews for this diverse audience.
A Pot Potpourri - Ivor Nol Hume
Scratched in Clay: Seventeenth-Century North Devon Slipware at Jamestown, Va.- Merry Abbitt Outlaw
Antique Porcelain 101: A Primer on the Chemical Analysis and Interpretation of Eighteenth-Century British Wares - J. Victor Owen
Parian Porcelain Statuary: American Sculptors and the Introduction of Art in American Ceramics - Ellen Paul Denker
And Freedom To The Slave: Antislavery Ceramics, 17871865 - Sam Margolin
The Very Man for the Hour: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Portrait Pitcher - Jonathan Prown, Glenn Adamson, Katherine Hemple Prown, and Robert Hunter
Ceramics from the Edward Rumney/Stephen West Tavern, London Town, Maryland, Circa 1725 - Al Luckenbach
Richard Schalck, Stoneware Potter of Marblehead, Massachusetts - Robert F. Trent
Brown Mugs and Jugs: A Personal Foray into the Field of Collecting - James Glenn New DiscoveriesLa Vega Cermica Indo-Hispano Lloyd PlateCanns- Merry Abbitt Outlaw
A Cache of Eighteenth-Century Flowerpots in Williamsburg - William Pittman and Robert Hunter
The American Foundation of the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, 17451784 - Stephen E. Patrick
Two Eighteenth-Century Vanity Plates - Joyce Hanes
American Export Wares Excavated in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent - Jonathan Goodwin
Archaeology at the United States Pottery Company Site in Bennington, Vermont - Catherine Zusy
The Search Continues: New Insights into Old EdgeWeld Folk Potters - Mark M. Newell
Bombs Away!: Unearthing a Cache of Terra Cotta Practice Bombs from the First World War - Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied
Book ReviewsWomen and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Moira Vincentelli - Rita P. Wright
Maiolica in the North: The Archaeology of Tin-Glazed Earthenware in North-West Europe c. 15001600, David Gaimster, ed. - Ivor Nol Hume
The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory: Excavations at 108-116 Narrow Street, London, 1990, Kieron Tyler and Roy Stephenson, with J. Victor Owen and Christopher Phillpotts - Robert Hunter
Adams Ceramics: Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 17791998, David A. Furniss, J. Richard Wagner, and Judith Wagner - Teresita Majewski
Country Pottery: Traditional Earthenware of Britain, Andrew McGarva - Greg Shooner
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning, Regina Lee Blaszczyk- Amy C. Earls
