For the first time, color photographs of the known nineteen surviving objects from this important American porcelain factory are presented.Accompanying essays provide the historical context for the rise and fall of the factory along with exploration of porcelain technology and classification of parallel British porcelain. Important new evidence is presented for an even earlier porcelain manufactory near Charleston, South Carolina that of emigrant Staffordshire potter John Bartlam.
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Reevaluates America's first successful porcelain factory founded by Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris.

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ISBN
9780976734406
Publisert
2007-11-14
Utgiver
Chipstone Foundation
Høyde
279 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
336

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Biografisk notat

Editor robert hunter is an archaeologist and ceramics historian ­living in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.