Ceramics in America 2011

Editorial Statement
Robert Hunter

Preface
Jonathan Prown, Lee L. French, and Martha Parker

Introduction
Robert Hunter

The Chinese Scholar Pattern: Style, Merchant Identity,
and the English Imagination
Sarah Fayen Scarlett

Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei’s Conceptual Ceramics
Garth Clark

Digging Up Salem’s Golden Age:
Ceramic Use Among the Merchant Class
George Schwartz

The States Border Series by Ralph and James Clews
Dick Henrywood

The Stoneware Years of the Thompson Potters of Morgantown,
West Virginia, 1854–1890
Richard Duez and Don Horvath with Brenda Hornsby Heindl

Ceramic Treasures in Seventeenth-Century Trash:
A 1660s Cellar Deposit
Al Luckenbach and John E. Kille

Cap-Hole Oyster Jars: A Racial Message in the Mud, or,
Shipping Ostreidae Crassostrea virginica
Ivor Noël Hume

New Discoveries

Book Reviews