1. Bernard Leach, A Potter’s Book (London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1945); Irma Starr, Irma Starr Demonstrates The Lost Art of 17th Century English Slipware Pottery (Kansas City, Mo.: self-published, n.d.).

2. Louis Marc Solon, The Art of the Old English Potter (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1883); Robert Plot, Natural History of Staffordshire (Oxford, 1686); Gudrun Klix, “Commemorating the Millennium,” Ceramics Art and Perception, no. 40 (fall 2000): 33–44. Illustrated in this last article is a Thomas Toft–style slip charger by Lincoln Kirby-Bell titled “Australia 2000 Coat of Arms.”

3. Leslie B. Grigsby, English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993), and Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, 2 vols. (London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 2000).

4. David Barker, Slipware (Buckinghamshire, England: Shire Publication, Ltd., 1993).

5. Robert F. Heizer and John A. Graham, A Field Guide to Field Methods in Archaeology: Approaches to the Anthropology of the Dead (Palo Alto, Ca.: The National Press, 1967), pp. 141–47.

6. Plot, Natural History of Staffordshire, pp. 123–24. Solon, The Art of the Old English Potter, p. 27. Bernard Leach, Hamada Potter (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1990), pp. 125–26.

7. Alison Grant, North Devon Pottery: The Seventeenth Century (Exeter, Eng.: University of Exeter, 1983).

8. Leach, A Potter’s Book, p. 114.