Covering for the first time production across the whole of Britain, this illustrated volume discusses the demand for white salt-glazed stoneware in the 17th and 18th centuries and outlines the industry, from raw materials to production and decoration, markets in Europe and America, and collecting. A final chapter takes a closer look at archaeological finds attributed to thirteen potters, including Josiah Wedgwood’s older brother, Thomas.
White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles is the first book on salt-glazed stoneware since 1971. This book is the first to cover salt-glazed production in the whole of the British Isles, not simply the production in Staffordshire. Beginning with the introduction of salt-glazed stoneware into England by German and Dutch potters in the mid-seventeenth century, and John Dwight's patent of 1672, this book goes on to discuss in detail early industrial stoneware, the manufacture from raw materials to producing and decorating the pots, to marketing and distribution, and even the history of collecting salt-glazed stoneware. There is a chapter on the American market and the final chapter identifies, for the first time, a number of manufacturers who produced salt-glazed stoneware, attributions made possible by the excavations of pottery sites. Beyond that, there are five invaluable appendices with details of all manufacturers of salt-glazed stoneware identified thus far, price lists from the eightee
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