Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware Pottery Makers incl.Wedgwood / Scarce Book

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”Staffordshire salt-glazed ware is intricately molded, often in elaborate forms and sometimes depicting historical events. It is trimly potted, often of extreme thinness, and lighter in weight than porcelain of the same period. This eighteenth-century ware brought Staffordshire pottery from the kitchens into the drawing rooms.” This copiously illustrated book is the first work to be devoted to Staffordshire salt-glazed ware – a delicate and highly collectible class of pottery that, in its lightness and fine potting, closely rivaled porcelain in the 18th century.
THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO STAFFORDSHIRE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE
by Arnold R. Mountford, Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1971.
Eight color plates and 244 halftones picture hundreds of examples of this ware complete with in-depth captions. “Staffordshire salt-glazed ware, widely exported, established an overseas trade that was to persist when the cream-ware body superseded salt-glaze - a trade continued in fine bone china today.” This scholarly study covers by chapter: Origins of Staffordshire; Brown Salt-Glaze; Drab Ware; Salt-Glazed Blocks; White Salt-Glazed Stoneware; Scratch Blue and Littler-Wedgwood Blue; Enameled and Printed Salt-Glazed Stoneware; Salt-Glazed Figures; Extracts from the Sales-Account Book and Crate Book of Thomas and John Wedgwood; and British and American Museums where Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware is Represented; Bibliography; and Index. If you are looking for a pictorial guide for the identification of this ware – one that is supplemented by in-depth narrative – then you will want to add this text to the shelf of your permanent reference library.
6.4” x 10” hardback with dust cover in very good condition (spine is sun bleached). Approximately 150 pages including photo plates.
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