The Connoisseur New Guide To Antique English Pottery Porcelain And Glass

This authoritative and useful guide to collecting pottery and porcelain provides a useful introduction to ceramic antiques. With over 100 brilliant full-color photos, this guide will be useful to everyone from the novice to the expert.

Tattoos and graffiti immediately bring to mind contemporary urban life and its inhabitants. But in fact, both practices date back much further than is generally thought—even by scholars. Drawing on a previously unavailable archive, Juliet Fleming reveals the unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England. In Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England, Fleming argues that our modern assumptions of what constitutes written expression have limited our access to and understanding of early modern history and writing. Fleming combines detailed historical scholarship with intellectual daring in a work that describes how writing practices have not been limited to the boundaries of the page; instead they have included body surfaces, ceramics, ceilings, walls, and windows. Moving beyond what has been preserved in print and manuscript, this book claims the whitewashed wall as the primary textual canvas of the early modern English, explores the tattooing practices of sixteenth-century Europeans, and uncovers the poetics of ceramic cookware. Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England will provide a startling new perspective for scholars of early modern literature and cultural history.

Includes entries for maps and atlases

From delicate porcelain teacups to sturdy earthenware plates, Antique English Pottery, Porcelain, and Glass is a comprehensive guide to the history and design of these beloved objects. With hundreds of full-color photographs and detailed descriptions, this book is a must-have for collectors, dealers, and anyone who loves the beauty and craftsmanship of antique ceramics and glassware. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.