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Product Description The third issue of the now-celebrated interdisciplinary annual journal from the Chipstone Foundation http://www.chipstone.org/ 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. This volume features articles on chamber pots, the Talbot Hotel Pit group, terracotta gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York, Staffordshire potters and their emigration to America in the 1840s, the pottery of Henry Piercy, the potters and pottery of Morgan's Town, Virginia, ceramic and porcelain representations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Long Island Redware, and the ceramics of Lucio Fontana. In addition to heavily-illustrated articles by noted American and British ceramic scholars and a private American collector profile, this issue contains New Discoveries edited by Merry A. Outlaw, Book Reviews and a Checklist of Articles and Books edited by Amy C. Earls, and an Index. Table of Contents Our Home in the West: Staffordshire Potters and Their Emigration to America in the 1840s - Miranda Goodby Highlights in the Development of the Rockingham and Yellow Ware Industry in the United States--A Brief Review with Representative Examples - Arthur F. Goldberg In the Philadelphia Style: The Pottery of Henry Piercy - Barbara H. Magid and Bernard K. Means Swirls and Whirls: English Agateware Technology - Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter The Talbot Hotel Pit Group - Peter Williams Through the Lookinge Glasse: or, the Chamber Pot as a Mirror of Its Time - Ivor Nol Hume Taken for Granite: Terracotta Gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York - Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied Meditations on a Chinese Musician - Graham Hood Informed Conjecture: Collecting Long Island Redware - Anthony W. Butera, Jr. NEW DISCOVERIESA Coxon Waster Deposit of the Mid-1860s, Sampled in Trenton, New Jersey - William B. Liebeknecht, Rebecca White, and Richard W. Hunter Excavations on the Site of the Lewis Pottery Complex, Buckley, North Wales, United Kingdom - Leigh J. Dodd A Maryland Grouping of Bow and Derby Figures of the 1760s - Stephen E. Patrick Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia: A Remarkable Slipware Assemblage - David G. Orr The Two Faces of Anthony Baecher - Christopher T. Espenshade The Richards Face - Shades of An Eighteenth-Century American Bellarmine - William B. Liebeknecht and Richard W. Hunter The Prodigal Son Returns to Jamestown - Beverly A. Straube Backcountry Sophistication: Anthropomorphic Elements from a Piedmont North Carolina Kiln - Alain C. Outlaw Toy Story - L. Madison Washburn Molded Malevolence: Instrumental Symbolism Rendered in Clay Christopher C. Fennell Making His MARK - Mark M. Newell BOOK REVIEWSAn Illustrated Guide to Minton Printed Pottery, 1796-1836, Geoffrey H. Priestman - Robert Copeland The Potter's Art, Henry Glassie - Ellen Denker China and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray, Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, and Stephen G. Harrison - Amy C. Earls Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600-1800, Amanda E. Lange - Louise P. Richardson Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture, and Commerce, 1880-1913, Nancy E. Owen - Cynthia Brandimarte Porcelain from the Vung Tau”Wreck: The Hallstrom Excavation, Christiaan J. A. Jörg and Michael Flecker - Linda R. Shulsky Review ...new discoveries in archaeology, ceramic technologies, and ceramic history...-- "Maine Antique Digest" There is plenty in these volumes to satisfy students of a number of academic disciplines...the subject matter and many excellent illustrations assure it of a wide appeal.-- "Clayart" Third Volume of splendid annual series on 18th and 19th century items.-- "Inside Antiques" This volume tackles the themes of cultural innovations, migrations and adaptations in the 18th- and 19th-century ceramics through a compilation of generously illustrated articles.-- "American Style" ..".new