Contents
Ceramics in America 2002
Introduction
Robert Hunter
A Pot Potpourri
Ivor Noël Hume
Scratched in Clay: Seventeenth-Century North Devon Slipware at
Jamestown, Virginia
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 62 the
Introduction of Art in American Ceramics
Ellen Paul Denker
“And Freedom To The Slave”: Antislavery Ceramics, 1787–1865
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 Discoveries
Introduction
Merry Abbitt Outlaw
La Vega Cerámica Indo-Hispano—An Early Sixteenth-Century 195
Caribbean Colono-ware
Kathleen Deagan
A Peacock’s Flight . . . Across 100 Years 199
Beverly A. Straube
Terra Sigillata From a Seventeenth-Century Settlement in
Newfoundland
James A. Tuck and Barry Gaulton
The Seventeenth-Century “Lloyd Plate” from the Broadneck Site in
Maryland
Al Luckenbach
A Collection of Curious “Canns”
Merry Abbitt Outlaw
A Cache of Eighteenth-Century Flowerpots in Williamsburg
William Pittman and Robert Hunter
The American Foundation of the Chelsea Porcelain
Manufactory, 1745–1784
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 Reviews
Amy C. Earls
Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Moira Vincentelli;
review by Rita P. Wright
Maiolica in the North: The Archaeology of Tin-Glazed Earthenware
in North-West Europe c. 1500–1600, David Gaimster (editor);
review by Ivor Noël 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;
review by Robert Hunter
Adams Ceramics: Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 1779–1998, David
A. Furniss, J. Richard Wagner, and Judith Wagner;
review by Teresita Majewski
Country Pottery: Traditional Earthenware of Britain, Andrew
McGarva;
review by Greg Shooner
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to
Corning, Regina Lee Blaszczyk;
review by Amy C. Earls
Checklist of Articles, Books, and Electronic Resources on Ceramics
in America Published 1998–2001
Compiled by Amy C. Earls