336 pages
color and b&w photos
Hard cover with dust jacket
28 x 21,50 cm
English
White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles is the first book on salt-glazed stoneware since 1971. This book is the first to cover salt-glazed production in the whole of the British Isles, not simply the production in Staffordshire.
Beginning with the introduction of salt-glazed stoneware into England by German and Dutch potters in the mid-seventeenth century, and John Dwight’s patent of 1672, this book goes on to discuss in detail early industrial stoneware, the manufacture from raw materials to producing and decorating the pots, to marketing and distribution, and even the history of collecting salt-glazed stoneware. There is a chapter on the American market and the final chapter identifies, for the first time, a number of manufacturers who produced salt-glazed stoneware, attributions made possible by the excavations of pottery sites. Beyond that, there are five invaluable appendices with details of all manufacturers of salt-glazed stoneware identified thus far, price lists from the eighteenth century and an extensive bibliography.
* The first book on the subject in more than thirty years and the very first book to encompass salt-glazed stoneware in Britain, not just in Staffordshire
* More than 400 illustrations – 200 colour and 240 black and white – of pieces in public and private collections and previously unpublished archaeological finds
* Includes a chapter on salt-glazed ware for the American market
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