Overview

Ceramics in America 2024 continues to publish new research on ceramics made, used, or collected in America. Articles in this issue include several on Thomas Commeraw, the free Black potter working in New York from about 1797 to 1819; a newly-discovered French porcelain figure that belonged to George Washington that descended in an African American family; new discoveries about porcelain figures of characters from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the long history of face vessels in America; how a baby squirrel inspired a collection of tin-glazed earthenware.

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Author:   Ron Fuchs
Publisher:   Chipstone Foundation
Imprint:   Chipstone Foundation
ISBN:  

9781737717546

ISBN 10:   1737717549
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   30 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A. Brandt Zipp, “Putting Thomas Commeraw Together Again: A Brief Meditation on Two Decades of Research”   Leslie M. Harris, “New York City in the Era of Thomas Commeraw”   Mark Shapiro, “Making a Commeraw Jug”   Chris Pickerell, “The Early American Oyster Jar”   Margi Hofer and Allison Robinson, “Collecting Commeraw”   Patricia F. Ferguson, “‘Slave candlesticks’: British patronage and racism in the mid-18th century”   Cassandra A. Good and Adam T. Erby, “La Peinture: The Rediscovery of George and Martha Washington’s Presidential Biscuit Porcelain Figures and their Incredible Provenance”   C. Wesley Cowan and Stephen C. Compton, “A Rare “Colored Republicing Club” Cooler”   Robert Hunter, “About Face Vessels”   Jill Weitzman Fenichell, “New Findings of Figural Porcelains that Feature Characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin”   Ronald W. Fuchs II, “A Worcester Parian Figure of Little Eva Reading the Bible to Uncle Tom”   Leslie Bouterie and Angelika Kuettner, “’The Landing of Lafayette’” in Williamsburg”   Al Luckenbach, “Squirrel Iconography on Early Delftware: The Genesis of a Ceramic Collection”

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Editor Ronald Fuchs II consults on early American ceramics and resides in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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