Ceramics in America 2021

The 2021 volume of Ceramics in America features wide ranging essays and new discoveries on ceramics used and collected in the American context. Of special note is the reporting of seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain discovered in the ca. 1607 contest of Jamestown, Virginia. Another essay documents the archaeologically-recovered Chinese export porcelain of James and Dolley Madison from their home Montpelier in Virginia. Other articles explore ceramics made to commemorate historical and political events both in America and Great Britain. The subject of nineteenth-century American stonewares made in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Virginia is covered in four important articles. A special collector’s biopic surveys a highly important American collection of eighteenth-century armorial Chinese porcelain. Other articles will include a profile of North Carolina potter David Stuempfle who continues the old-age tradition of producing wood fired stoneware and a summary of an archaeologically recovered assemblage of early nineteenth-century slip decorated earthenwares attributed to Enoch Wood and James Caldwell of Burslem, Staffordshire.Table of ContentsThe Thames Tunnel Inkwell John AultThe 18th-Century Stoneware of Ashbel Wells, Jr. of Hartford, Connecticut Revealed Robert HunterArt and Collecting Chinese Armorial Porcelain Bruce Coleman Perkins The Invisible American Justus Morton of Brantford, OntarioSylvia Lovegren-Petras Jingdezhen, China . . . Bantam, Java . . . Jamestown, Degrees of Separation for a Porcelain Bowl Bly Straube The Little Brothers Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts Lorraine GermanA Newly Discovered Design Source for a Washington Memorial JugAdam ErbyTribute To An Unsung Hero Sam Margolin Coincidental Attribution Jonathan Rickard and Donald Carpentier New Discovered Examples from DuVal’s Richmond Stoneware Manufactory Robert Hunter From China to A Dish with View of the Dutch Folly Fort in GuangzhouMatthew Reeves and Ronald W. Fuchs II A Study in The Stoneware of David Stuempfle Robert Hunter with David StuempfleFit for a A Chinese Porcelain Bottle Found at Jamestown, VirginiaMerry OutlawEighteenth Century Revolutionary Creamware at Rocketts Landing, Richmond, Virginia Dan Mouer