An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts.

American Furniture 1994

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

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Chipstone Foundation

An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts. This volume focuses on regional diversity and innovation, and includes papers presented at an important conference at the Wadsworth Atheneum.

American Furniture 1995

Fast becoming the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.

American Furniture 1996 (American Furniture Annual)

This volume includes articles on pineapple motif in southern furniture, the Dutch trade and its influence on seventeenth-century Chesapeake furniture, Charleston neoclassical case furniture, the Holmes-Edwards library bookcase and the origins of the German School in pre-revolutionary Charleston, eighteenth-century furniture from western Maryland, Irish influences on the cabinet trade of Virginia's Rappahannock river basin, the Huguenot furniture-makers in South Carolina, Winchester, Virginia furniture, conserving Virginia upholstered seating furniture, the transfer of furniture styles from Philadelphia to Winchester to Tennessee, the importation of London household furnishings into Charleston during the 1780s, plus book reviews and a bibliography.

American Furniture 1997 (American Furniture Annual)

This volume features articles on late Baroque Boston seating furniture, Germanic influence on furniture early nineteenth-century design in Philadelphia, Randolph chairs, the Christian M. Nestell drawing book, the inlaid cherry furniture of Nathan Lombard, the Waldo family joined great chair, "Tinkham" chairs, as well as book reviews and bibliography of new books in the field. Table of Contents The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style - Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820-1850 - Charles L. Venable Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered - Philip D. Zimmerman The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America - Nancy Goyne Evans Sophistication in Central Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard - Brock Jobe and Clark Pearce A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter's Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair - Peter Follansbee Notes about New Tinkham”Chairs - Karen Goldstein and Robert F. Trent BOOK REVIEWSThe Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood - Milo M. Naeve HonoréLannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York, Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter, and Ulrich Leben - Wendy A. Cooper New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky - Wallace B. Gusler The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief, John T. Kirk - Scott T. Swank Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840, Geoffrey Beard - Jeffrey H. Munger Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown - Robert A. Leath

American Furniture 1998 (American Furniture Annual)

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in ceramics is at an all-time high. As a vehicle for much-needed synthesis, Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters, every issue features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews for this diverse audience.Table of ContentsA Pot Potpourri - Ivor Nol HumeScratched in Clay: Seventeenth-Century North Devon Slipware at Jamestown, Va.- Merry Abbitt OutlawAntique Porcelain 101: A Primer on the Chemical Analysis and Interpretation of Eighteenth-Century British Wares - J. Victor OwenParian Porcelain Statuary: American Sculptors and the Introduction of Art in American Ceramics - Ellen Paul DenkerAnd Freedom To The Slave: Antislavery Ceramics, 17871865 - Sam MargolinThe Very Man for the Hour: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Portrait Pitcher - Jonathan Prown, Glenn Adamson, Katherine Hemple Prown, and Robert HunterCeramics from the Edward Rumney/Stephen West Tavern, London Town, Maryland, Circa 1725 - Al LuckenbachRichard Schalck, Stoneware Potter of Marblehead, Massachusetts - Robert F. TrentBrown Mugs and Jugs: A Personal Foray into the Field of Collecting - James Glenn New DiscoveriesLa Vega Cermica Indo-Hispano Lloyd PlateCanns- Merry Abbitt OutlawA Cache of Eighteenth-Century Flowerpots in Williamsburg - William Pittman and Robert HunterThe American Foundation of the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, 17451784 - Stephen E. PatrickTwo Eighteenth-Century Vanity Plates - Joyce HanesAmerican Export Wares Excavated in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent - Jonathan GoodwinArchaeology at the United States Pottery Company Site in Bennington, Vermont - Catherine ZusyThe Search Continues: New Insights into Old EdgeWeld Folk Potters - Mark M. NewellBombs Away!: Unearthing a Cache of Terra Cotta Practice Bombs from the First World War - Richard Veit and Mark NonestiedBook ReviewsWomen and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Moira Vincentelli - Rita P. WrightMaiolica in the North: The Archaeology of Tin-Glazed Earthenware in North-West Europe c. 15001600, David Gaimster, ed. - Ivor Nol HumeThe Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory: Excavations at 108-116 Narrow Street, London, 1990, Kieron Tyler and Roy Stephenson, with J. Victor Owen and Christopher Phillpotts - Robert HunterAdams Ceramics: Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 17791998, David A. Furniss, J. Richard Wagner, and Judith Wagner - Teresita MajewskiCountry Pottery: Traditional Earthenware of Britain, Andrew McGarva - Greg ShoonerImagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning, Regina Lee Blaszczyk- Amy C. Earls

Ceramics in America 2002 (Ceramics in America Annual)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The third issue of the now-celebrated interdisciplinary annual journal from the Chipstone Foundation http://www.chipstone.org/ that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context, intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters. This volume features articles on chamber pots, the Talbot Hotel Pit group, terracotta gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York, Staffordshire potters and their emigration to America in the 1840s, the pottery of Henry Piercy, the potters and pottery of Morgan's Town, Virginia, ceramic and porcelain representations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Long Island Redware, and the ceramics of Lucio Fontana. In addition to heavily-illustrated articles by noted American and British ceramic scholars and a private American collector profile, this issue contains New Discoveries edited by Merry A. Outlaw, Book Reviews and a Checklist of Articles and Books edited by Amy C. Earls, and an Index. Table of Contents Our Home in the West: Staffordshire Potters and Their Emigration to America in the 1840s - Miranda Goodby Highlights in the Development of the Rockingham and Yellow Ware Industry in the United States--A Brief Review with Representative Examples - Arthur F. Goldberg In the Philadelphia Style: The Pottery of Henry Piercy - Barbara H. Magid and Bernard K. Means Swirls and Whirls: English Agateware Technology - Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter The Talbot Hotel Pit Group - Peter Williams Through the Lookinge Glasse: or, the Chamber Pot as a Mirror of Its Time - Ivor Nol Hume Taken for Granite: Terracotta Gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York - Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied Meditations on a Chinese Musician - Graham Hood Informed Conjecture: Collecting Long Island Redware - Anthony W. Butera, Jr. NEW DISCOVERIESA Coxon Waster Deposit of the Mid-1860s, Sampled in Trenton, New Jersey - William B. Liebeknecht, Rebecca White, and Richard W. Hunter Excavations on the Site of the Lewis Pottery Complex, Buckley, North Wales, United Kingdom - Leigh J. Dodd A Maryland Grouping of Bow and Derby Figures of the 1760s - Stephen E. Patrick Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia: A Remarkable Slipware Assemblage - David G. Orr The Two Faces of Anthony Baecher - Christopher T. Espenshade The Richards Face - Shades of An Eighteenth-Century American Bellarmine - William B. Liebeknecht and Richard W. Hunter The Prodigal Son Returns to Jamestown - Beverly A. Straube Backcountry Sophistication: Anthropomorphic Elements from a Piedmont North Carolina Kiln - Alain C. Outlaw Toy Story - L. Madison Washburn Molded Malevolence: Instrumental Symbolism Rendered in Clay Christopher C. Fennell Making His MARK - Mark M. Newell BOOK REVIEWSAn Illustrated Guide to Minton Printed Pottery, 1796-1836, Geoffrey H. Priestman - Robert Copeland The Potter's Art, Henry Glassie - Ellen Denker China and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray, Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, and Stephen G. Harrison - Amy C. Earls Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600-1800, Amanda E. Lange - Louise P. Richardson Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture, and Commerce, 1880-1913, Nancy E. Owen - Cynthia Brandimarte Porcelain from the Vung Tau”Wreck: The Hallstrom Excavation, Christiaan J. A. Jörg and Michael Flecker - Linda R. Shulsky

Ceramics in America 2003 (Ceramics in America Annual)

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present. Table of Contents Early Carving in the South Carolina Low Country: The Career and Work of Henry Burnett - John Bivins, Jr. Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Beds - Nancy Goyne Evans Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism - Sarah Neale Fayen Provenance, Patronage, and Perception: The Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture - Lance Humphries The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture - Edward S. Cooke, Jr. From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom Jr., Artisan of the New Republic - Peter M. Kenny BOOK REVIEWSEnglish Furniture, 1660-1714: From Charles II to Queen Anne, Adam Bowett - Glenn Adamson Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood, Thomas Moser, with Brad Lemley - Edward S. Cooke, Jr. The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820, Bradford L. Rauschenberg and John Bivins, Jr. - Robert A. Leath

American Furniture 2003 (American Furniture Annual)

History

Americas

The 2004 issue features many important articles including the first color publication of America's earliest stoneware factory-The Poor Potter of Yorktown. In addition, other articles feature previously unpublished information about several important American Salt-glazed stoneware potters. The redware products of Morgantown West Virginia are presented along with information about English porcelain, Maryland tobacco pipes, and a wonderful essay about Bernard Leach's travels in America.Table of ContentsThe Swan Cove Kiln: Chesapeake Tobacco Pipe Production, Circa 1650-1669 - Al LuckenbachArchaeology of a Colonial Pottery Factory: The Kilns and Ceramics of the Poor PotterPoor Potter: A Man Wise Beyond Discretion - Martha W. McCartney and Edward AyresAn A-Markedl HumeNEW DISCOVERIESA New Look at Old Stoneware: The Pottery of Tildon Easton - Barbara H. MagidJames Miller, Lost Potter of Alexandria, Virginia - Brandt Zipp and Mark ZippRelatedness and Fluidity among Stoneware Potters of Washington County, Virginia - Christopher T. EspenshadeJar or Jug? A Handled Stoneware Storage Vessel from the Delaware Valley - William B. LiebeknechtWilliam Pecker Jar - John KilleExcavations at the Minton Factory: Shedding New Light on Nineteenth-Century Pottery Kilns - Jonathan GoodwinIf This Pot Could Sing - Al LuckenbachThis I Mad for Yov and MoomGhostsl Hume - Geoffrey GoddenRudy Autio, Louana Lackey - Glenn AdamsonBusiness Structure, Business Culture, and the Industrial District: The Potteries, c. 1850-1914, Andrew Popp - Regina L. BlaszcszykPottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick, Richard D. Mohr - Ellen P. DenkerThe Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez, Richard L. Spivey - Dwight P. LanmonChinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, Thomas V. Litzenburg, Jr., and Ann T. Bailey - Kee Il ChoiThe Traditional Crafts of Porcelain Making in Jingdezhen, Bai Ming - William R. Sargent

Ceramics in America 2004 (Ceramics in America Annual)

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present. Table of Contents A Table's Tale: Craft, Art and Opportunity in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia - Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller The Account Book of Benjamin Baker - Dennis Andrew Carr High Craft Along the Mohawk: Early Woodwork from the Albany Area of New York - Robert F. Trent, Alan Miller, Glenn Adamson, and Harry Mack Truax II John Singleton Copley's Furniture and the Art of Invention - Jonathan Prown Southern Sophistication on the Early Frontier: The Inlaid Furniture of Washington County, Ohio, 1788-1825 - Andrew Richmond Opulence Abroad: HonoréLannuier's Gilded Furniture in Trinidad de Cuba - Peter M. Kenny BOOK REVIEWSCincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors, Jennifer L. Howe, editor - Kenneth L. Ames Nature, Form, and Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima, Mira Nakashima - Thomas A. Denenberg

American Furniture 2004 (American Furniture Annual)

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