Pottery & Ceramics

Learning from others' mistakes is always more efficient and less costly than committing them yourself. This book is packed with practical information that will enable potters to successfully complete the many steps in pottery production. Making...

This beautiful, color-illustrated reference of British Art potteries includes detailed accounts of their histories, artists, designers, craftsmen, and personalities, together with a comprehensive list of marks. The ceramics reflect the highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570768439Author Teresa MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Trafalgar Square BooksPublisher Trafalgar Square BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm)...

Why are people still handmaking utilitarian pottery in the 21st century? Doesn't industrial production take care of all our storage and cooking and serving needs? Yet, in all corners of the US, pottery is being discovered, studied, developed, produced,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024231Author Natalia B. TeteriatnikovFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764168734Author Jacqui AtkinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

The most common marks found on antique ceramics, 1600s to 1900s, hand-drawn and with identification and dates used. These are the marks that appear in today's market under ordinary conditions. Includes America before 1890, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia,...

From the finest collections of bone china to contemporary and practical everyday dishes and kitchenware, the willow pattern has graced dining tables and adorned ceramic wares for more than 200 years. First introduced during the early 19th century in...

The classic porcelain painting from Meissen ranks among the most beautiful and precious of all that the porcelain art has produced. The author shows, in many colored step-by-step illustrations, how the porcelain painter can personally create decorations...

This book is for the beginning and advanced painter alike. Here is a wealth of painting knowledge and an introduction to the time-honored techniques of porcelain painting, the necessary tools and the designs. The central focus of the book is the classic...

This book looks at decorative tiles manufactured in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia/Moravia/Czechoslovakia in the years between 1895 and 1935. These ceramic tiles, used primarily on walls, floors, and stoves, but also furniture, trays, and more,...

Best known as one of the most widely used industrial ceramic techniques, slipcasting has become increasingly attractive to individual artists and craftspersons. Slip, a water and clay solution, is poured into porous molds. As the mold absorbs water from...

Emmanuel Cooper's classic guide to making glazes is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition. Cooper provides potters with an introductory section on glaze materials, coloring, mixing, and the application of glazes, as well as information on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873654029Author Steven A. LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

A growing number of ceramic artists now choose not to glaze their work. Instead, they use an unglazed—naked—surface to express their ideas and concerns. From slips and terra sigillata to burnishing, engobes, oxide washes, and additions to the clay body,...

Since the 1960s, the best Victorian Staffordshire ceramic figures pieces have achieved values rivaling porcelain figures from Dresden and Meissen. Over 350 beautiful images here display the figures produced from 1875 onward at their best, both original...

In 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336570Author Penny Copland-GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

The collecting of Staffordshire figures, a particularly English folk art, has expanded from its origins to include much of the English speaking world. This work, in two books, details and illustrates the range and depth of figures made by the potters...

For the first time, this book uncovers the fascinating history and diverse design of decorative ceramic tiles in Britain during the 20th century. Following extensive research and study, author Chris Blanchett, a well-known British tile enthusiast and...

This book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage-centre to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase-paintings, which have been generally regarded as marginal curiosities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787105829Author Grace Selous BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951035495Author Gill RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Forginghero PublishingPublisher Forginghero PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Discover how to develop your pottery design skills and bring your ideas to life from start to finish.Covering every technique from throwing pottery to firing, glazing to sgraffito, this pottery book is perfect for both hand-building beginners and potting...

Over 270 clear, color photos and 53 pattern drawings show how to creature sculpture from soap, using simple wooden tools. You can learn to carve twelve well-known and much-loved dwellers of the oceans and coral reefs, including the clownfish, starfish,...

For any ceramic artist who has ever dreamed of making cuerda seca (literally "dry line") tile, this practical and comprehensive handbook covers every aspect of the process, from formulating the right clay body to final installation. Studio layout,...

Elegant, hand-painted porcelain plates were popularly produced as decorative fine arts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Created by some of the most influential potteries and decorating houses in England and Europe, examples here include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888391346Author Sharon WirtFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

For nearly three hundred years, from the late seventeenth to the middle twentieth century, stoneware was a major part of British ceramic output. This book concentrates on that particular area of ceramics, and covers the history and development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548188Author Raz KletterFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904531480Author Helen WhitehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954336752Author Sharma KrauskopfFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Scottish Radiance PublicationsPublisher Scottish Radiance PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904531848Author John DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540182Author Caroline SassoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint British Archaeological ReportsPublisher British Archaeological Reports

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Judy Balchin demonstrates, with clear step-by-step photographs, how easy and exciting it is to transform old bottles, flowerpots, plates, mugs, bowls and vases using simple decorative techniques. Learn how to paint on glass, how to decorate ceramics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762106134Author Emma BiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Reader's Digest AssociationPublisher Reader's Digest Association

This title features over 30 beautiful and easy-to-follow decorative projects for all types of china, with practical ideas for both the house and garden. It is illustrated with over 300 pictures and detailed photographs of the finished results so that you...

A collection of 55 doughcraft projects with a countryside and farmyard theme. All the designs are assembled from basic shapes. Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by drawings and colour photographs, and the book describes the materials required and...

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