Edited by Robert Hunter and Luke Beckerdite

Now in its ninth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context. The 2009 volume presents new research related to the rich and varied earthenware production in the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Moravian settlements of Bethabara and Salem, North Carolina. Setting a new standard for American ceramic studies, this transdisciplinary effort draws on archaeology, art history, social history, religion, ceramic technology, and many other areas of inquiry resulting in a substantively revised history of this much-admired North Carolina pottery tradition. Many examples of highly decorative slipware and intriguing figural bottles are illustrated for the first time with color photography by Gavin Ashworth.

Three articles contributed by Old Salem Museums & Gardens staff members, Johanna Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts and Director of Collections, and Michael O. Hartley, Director of Archaeology, join articles written by noted scholars and potters such as Robert Hunter, Luke Beckerdite, Lisa Hudgins, Alain C. Outlaw, Michelle Ercikson, and Caroline M. Hannah.

Table of Contents:
Editorial Statement Robert Hunter
Preface Jonathan Prown, Lee L. French, and Martha Parker
Introduction Robert Hunter
Acknowledgements Luke Beckerdite and Robert Hunter
Eighteenth-Century Earthenware from North Carolina: The Moravian Tradition Reconsidered Luke Beckerdite and Johanna Brown
Staffordshire in America: The Wares of John Bartlam at Cain Hoy, 1765-1770 Lisa Hudgins
Staffordshire Ceramics in Wachovia Robert Hunter
Tradition and Adaptation in Moravian Press-Molded Earthenware Johanna Brown
Salem Pottery After 1834: Henry Schaffner and Daniel Krause Michael O. Hartley
The Mount Shepherd Pottery Site, Randolph County, North Carolina Alain C. Outlaw
Making a Moravian Faience Ring Bottle Robert Hunter and Michelle Erickson
Making a Moravian Squirrel Bottle Michelle Erickson, Robert Hunter, and Caroline M. Hannah
Selected References
Index

2010; Hardcover; 350 pages.
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