This Blessed Plot, This Earth (Hardcover)

This beautifully designed and illustrated book celebrates the career of Jonathan Horne FSA, international authority on English pottery and for forty years a London dealer at the top of his field. With over thirty essays the book covers a broad range of subjects by specialists from around the world including curators, academics and archaeologists. Subjects include the first pottery in James Fort, America; shipping containers for Atlantic ceramic cargoes; Delftware exports to the West Indies; recent archaeological discoveries in London; an 18th-century duke's bill for creamware; delftware, stoneware and Jonathan's Coffee-House; the 16th-century Rheinland stoneware industry in England and William Greatbatch revisited. Contributors include David Gaimster, Aileen Dawson, Timothy Wilson, Janine Skerry, Leslie Grigsby, Ivor Noel Hume, Gaye Blake Roberts, Jan Daniel van Dam, Jacqueline Pearce, Robin Hildyard and Michael Archer. Encompassing a broad range of new research this book is a lasting tribute to Jonathan Horne's many services to English pottery, a subject to which his insight, warmth and scholarship has contributed so much.

General

Imprint:	Paul Holberton Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	May 2011
Dimensions:	223 x 264 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-907372-09-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Ceramic arts, pottery, glass > Ceramics
LSN:	1-907372-09-1
Barcode:	9781907372094

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