English Pottery

by Julia E. Poole

Overview

This beautifully illustrated book gives a colorful impression of the vitality and diversity of English pottery made between the late thirteenth and the late twentieth century. It describes the main types of earthenware and stoneware, and discusses the most important technical, stylistic and social influences that shaped their development. The sixty-four pieces of pottery shown in a historical sequence are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which houses one of the world's most extensive and varied collections of English pottery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521475211
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/04/1995
Series:	Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks
Pages:	151
Product dimensions:	6.85(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Glossary; 1. Jug; 2. Drinking pot; 3. Flagon; 4. Bottle; 5. Dish; 6. Jug; 7. Two-handed tyg; 8. Tulip charger; 9. 'Nobody'; 10. Dish; 11. Posset pot and salver; 12. Cistern; 13. Bottle; 14. Mug; 15. Jug; 16. Covered cup with four handles and a whistle; 17. Dish; 18. Six xhinoiserie tiles; 19. Punch bowl and cover; 20. Hunting mug; 21. Two-handed loving cup; 22. Milk jug and teapot; 23. Pew group; 24. Bear jug or jar; 25. Camel and monkey or squirrel teapots; 26. Jug; 27. Dish; 28. Teabowl, saucer and coffee pot; 29. Coffee pot; 30. Teapot; 31. Tureen; 32. Teapot; 33. Jug; 34. Centrepiece; 35. St George and the dragon; 36. Toby jug; 37. demosthenes; 38. Erasmus Darwin's portland vase copy; 39. Teapot; 40. Obelisk; 41. Dinner plate; 42. Garniture of five covered vases; 43. Jug; 44. Dish; 45. 'Perswaition'; 46. Vase and cover with pagoda finial; 47. Flask in the shape of a girl holding a dove; 48. The 'Bulrush' water jug; 49. Pot-lid; 50. Ewer and basin; 51. The Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prussia; 52. Jug; 53. Giant teapot; 54. Flagon; 55. Tole picture; 56. Owl; 57. Hop jug; 58. Vase; 59. Dish; 60. Jug; 61. Dinner plate; 62. Pagoda-lidded bowl; 63. Vase; 64. Deep-sided bowl on a high foot.