Ceramics in America 2019 (Ceramics in America Annual)

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 America's most important potteries and their kilns are illustrated and discussed: the William Rogers Pottery of Yorktown, Virginia (ca. 1720-1745) , and the massive stoneware kilns of Abner Landrum's Pottersville factory in Edgefield, South Carolina (ca. 1818-1840) . 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 maker's art and the multicultural circumstance of their manufacture and use. . Table of Contents. The Search for the Green‑Glaze Potter of PhiladelphiaDeborah Miller. Geochemistry of 18th-Century Hard-Paste Porcelain Artifacts Excavated in PhiladelphiaJ. Victor Owen, Evan M. Owen, John D. Greenough, Deborah Miller, Brandon Boucher, and Robert Hunter. Ronald W. Fuchs II One of the Earliest Pieces of Chinese Porcelain in VirginiaRonald W. Fuchs II. A Manhattan-Made Native American Portrait JugRobert Hunter. Eighteenth-Century Boston Stoneware: Appealing to a Local MarketLorraine German. "The Picture of the Old Pottery"Benjamin B. Edmands, transcription by Lorraine German. Visualizing the Stoneware Potteries of William Rogers of Yorktown and Abner Landrum of PottersvilleRobert Hunter and Oliver Mueller Heubach. Creolization of the Northeastern Woodland American Clay Stemmed Tobacco PipeTaft Kiser and Al Luckenbach. Making Pipes: Experiments to Learn Things We Don't Know We Don't KnowTaft Kiser and Al Luckenbach