A complete guide to achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes for the studio potter, this book looks at all the methods of achieving colour in glazes, focusing on colouring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare earth oxides.

Tableware has occupied a special place in our kitchens and dining rooms for thousands of years, and continues to enchant us today. Ranging from the purely functional to the fine and delicate, the evolution of domestic pots tells us much about our changing tastes and habits, and the wider art and cultural movements that have influenced their decoration and forms.In Contemporary Tableware, maker Linda Bloomfield looks at the history of the pots on our tables, from Sung Chinese and Medieval English ware to the revival of studio pottery and the influence of Scandinavian, American and Japanese...