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Catawba Indian Pottery: The Survival of a Folk Tradition
ISBN: 9780817350611 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a Foreword by William Harris When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors. In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of those documented ceramics to the lineage of their probable present-day master potters or, in other...With a Foreword by William Harris When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley ... |
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Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast
ISBN: 9780817351274 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A synthesis of research on earthenware technologies of the Late Archaic Period in the southeastern U.S. Information on social groups and boundaries, and on interaction between groups, burgeons when pottery appears on the social landscape of the Southeast in the Late Archaic period (ca. 5000-3000 years ago). This volume provides a broad, comparative review of current data from "first potteries" of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and it presents research that expands our understanding of how pottery functioned in its earliest... A synthesis of research on earthenware technologies of the Late Archaic Period in the southeastern U.S. Information on social groups a... |
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Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
ISBN: 9780819562005 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
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Ceramica Y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayilica
ISBN: 9780826331021 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brought to Spain in the thirteenth century by Islamic artisans, the enamelled earthenware known as mayolica is decorated with a lead glaze to which tin oxide is added to create an opaque white surface. By the fifteenth century, several areas in Spain were well known throughout Europe for the quality of these ceramics, and with Spain's expansion into the New World the mayolica tradition came into Mexico. There it underwent further changes, notably the use of indigenous design motifs and patterns inspired by Chinese porcelain. Over the next three centuries, the potters of New Spain produced...
Brought to Spain in the thirteenth century by Islamic artisans, the enamelled earthenware known as mayolica is decorated with a lead glaze to which ti...
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Inside Japanese Ceramics: Primer Of Materials, Techniques, And Traditions
ISBN: 9780834804425 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical and supremely useful manual is the first comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Japanese ceramics. The Japanese ceramics tradition is without compare in its technical and stylistic diversity, its expressive content, and the level of appreciation it enjoys, both in Japan and around the world. Inside Japanese Ceramics focuses on tools, materials, and procedures, and how all of these have influenced the way traditional Japanese ceramics look and feel. A true primer, it concentrates on the basics: setting up a workshop, pot-forming techniques, decoration, glazes, and kilns...
This practical and supremely useful manual is the first comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Japanese ceramics. The Japanese ceramics tradition is ...
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The Potter's Odyssey
ISBN: 9780865340039 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many books about ceramics provide technique upon technique, tool upon tool, recipe upon recipe. Mastery of gadgets and quick, tricky how-to-do-it techniques may seem the way to go. But this leaves no place for adventure. This book has good recipes, of course, but it is really for those who will ultimately create their own new recipes and forms. The motivation is in the mind. Guideposts are necessary and they must be visualized. This book is written in the belief that the motivation will find the method. * * * * * Willard Spence pioneered the development of special glazes, mixing over two...
Many books about ceramics provide technique upon technique, tool upon tool, recipe upon recipe. Mastery of gadgets and quick, tricky how-to-do-it tech...
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Indian Pottery of the Southwest
ISBN: 9780865340671 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pottery is one of the earliest and oldest crafts in the history of mankind. It has evolved from the utilitarian to the purely artistic, from cooking pots to storyteller dolls. Native American pottery has flourished in the American Southwest since 300 B.C. This selected bibliography is a guide for both the collector and the general reader who would like additional information about Native American pottery and potters. * * * * * Marcia Muth is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1919 and grew up in Indiana and western New York State. A former...
Pottery is one of the earliest and oldest crafts in the history of mankind. It has evolved from the utilitarian to the purely artistic, from cooking p...
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Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection
ISBN: 9780873654012 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This attractive volume catalogues the effigy pottery so-called because they're decorated with the heads and sometimes with the fins, tails, and feet of various creatures collected from prehistoric mounds in Arkansas for the Peabody Museum by Edwin Curtiss in the late 19th century. The collecting expedition is described at length in initial chapters
This attractive volume catalogues the effigy pottery so-called because they're decorated with the heads and sometimes with the fins, tails, and feet o...
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Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest
ISBN: 9780873654029 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mimbres people of southwest New Mexico lived from A.D. 200 until the 1100s, and are best known for their distinctive painted pottery that incorporate sophisticated abstract and representational images. Archaeologist LeBlanc of the Peabody Museum outlines Harriet & Burton Cosgrove's excavation of the Swarts Ranch ruin in the 1920s, and provides
The Mimbres people of southwest New Mexico lived from A.D. 200 until the 1100s, and are best known for their distinctive painted pottery that incorpor...
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Chinese Ceramics in Colonial Mexico
ISBN: 9780875871790 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the little-known Far Eastern contribution to the cultural amalgam of colonial Mexico.
This book explores the little-known Far Eastern contribution to the cultural amalgam of colonial Mexico.
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The Potter's Workbook
ISBN: 9780877456711 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "A Potter's Workbook, " renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for the hand and the mind. Her aim is to provide a way to see, to make, and to think about the forms of wheel-thrown vessels; her information and inspiration explain both the mechanics of throwing and finishing pots made simply on the wheel and the principles of truth and beauty arising from that traditional method. Each chapter begins with a series of exercises that introduce the principles of good form and good forming for pitchers, bowls, cylinders, lids, handles, and every other conceivable... In "A Potter's Workbook, " renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for the hand and the mind. Her aim is to provide a w... |
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Making Native American Pottery
ISBN: 9780879611910 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Simpson tells in easy-to-understand steps, according to traditional methods, how to gather and process clay, form several types of Native American pots, make designs and finishes, slip and decorate, and burnish and fire pottery without using a kiln. Simpson (part Cherokee and Yakima) was taught by Doris Blue, a Catawba master potter. Fully illustrated with color and black and white photographs.
Michael Simpson tells in easy-to-understand steps, according to traditional methods, how to gather and process clay, form several types of Native Amer...
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Zuni Pottery
ISBN: 9780887401008 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beauty of traditional Zuni pottery has intrigued native as well as non-native people for generations. Zuni Pottery presents some of the finest current and all-hand-made pots and the talented young potters whose heritage has led them to this exciting art form. Recently, pottery-making at the Zuni Pueblo has been stimulated by a well-organized tribal enterprise to purchase and market Zuni arts. The Zuni Pueblo, located 150 miles west of the Rio Grande Valley on the border of Arizona and New Mexico, is the Zuni people's homeland which they feel is the center of the world, equidistant from...
The beauty of traditional Zuni pottery has intrigued native as well as non-native people for generations. Zuni Pottery presents some of the finest cur...
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Pennsbury Pottery
ISBN: 9780887402296 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The delightful decorations that characterize Pennsbury pottery have made it a favorite type of American wares since the pottery's origin in 1950 and a rapidly growing field of collectible interest today. This book presents the history of the family-run business in Pennsylvania with the maker's marks, complete listing of the patterns, reproduction of the 1959 catalog, and hundreds of color photographs of the pottery pieces. The German immigrant founders of the pottery works, the Below family, incorporated american nationalistic folk art designs such as the eagle and shield, as well as charming...
The delightful decorations that characterize Pennsbury pottery have made it a favorite type of American wares since the pottery's origin in 1950 and a...
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Children Figurines of Bisque and Chinawares, 1850-1950
ISBN: 9780887402975 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now there is finally a reference source for collector's of bisque and china children figurines Whether you collect one type of figurine such as Snow Babies, Kewpies or Piano Babies or children figurines in general this book is for you. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 color photographs, this book offers a lot of practical information, illustrations of marks, the origins of each category, related collectibles and lists of manufacturers. In addition, the author provides you with guidelines on what to look for when purchasing figurines and a useful price guide A reference source the children...
Now there is finally a reference source for collector's of bisque and china children figurines Whether you collect one type of figurine such as Snow ...
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Occupied Japan for Collectors: 1945-1952
ISBN: 9780887403781 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the occupation of Japan between 1945 and 1952, a world market for small and inexpensive goods was correctly identified as a starting point for rebuilding the Japanese economy. This new book is filled with thousands of once-familiar items of ceramic, paper, glass, celluloid, wood, and papier-mache which were marked "Made in Occupied Japan," and shipped to the United States and the United Kingdom. Today, these items have increased in value and are avidly collected. The book presents over 400 color photographs of the items, shows 133 different manufacturers' marks, and includes a value...
During the occupation of Japan between 1945 and 1952, a world market for small and inexpensive goods was correctly identified as a starting point for ...
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The Complete Salt and Pepper Shaker Book
ISBN: 9780887404948 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The largest, most comprehensive and colorful guide to salt and pepper shakers ever published A companion volume to The Complete Cookie Jar Book, published in 1991. The Complete Salt and Pepper Shaker Book shows more than 1600 sets of figural shakers in full color. The collection includes those by American potteries such as Rosemeade and Ceramic Arts Studio that have never appeared in a book before. Company histories, measurements of shakers, and pictures of marks and paper labels are among the book's innovative features. As some salt and pepper shakers currently attract hundreds of dollars,...
The largest, most comprehensive and colorful guide to salt and pepper shakers ever published A companion volume to The Complete Cookie Jar Book, publ...
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Ceramic Arts Studio: Identification and Price Guide
ISBN: 9780887406041 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thousands of collectors will rejoice in this new guide to the products of Ceramic Arts Studio in Wisconsin. From 1942 to 1955, the pottery focused on the production of slipcast figurines which are avidly collected today. In over 250 color photographs Mike Schneider captures the beauty and charm of these figurines, providing a reference that has long been needed by collectors. The photographs are accompanied by a wealth of useful information including the history of the company and hints on care, repair, preservation, valuing, fakes, and reproductions. The figurines are organized by type with...
Thousands of collectors will rejoice in this new guide to the products of Ceramic Arts Studio in Wisconsin. From 1942 to 1955, the pottery focused on ...
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Historic Flow Blue
ISBN: 9780887406409 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America in the nineteenth century Victorian age was changing as fast as the engines of the Industrial Revolution could carry it. At every turn, Flow Blue was there, first sparking the interest of the affluent and later the middle class with its rich colors and complete table services. This book puts Flow Blue in its historical context and covers the British, American and European manufacturers who produced it, the exhibitions that promoted it, the people who owned it and what moved them to buy it. Over 500 color photographs present the variety of forms and patterns in these popular wares from...
America in the nineteenth century Victorian age was changing as fast as the engines of the Industrial Revolution could carry it. At every turn, Flow B...
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Pottery, Modern Wares 1920-1960
ISBN: 9780887406928 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handsome new book explores production pottery, the factory-made and hand-decorated wares produced by selected American and European companies that are of special interest to collectors. Familiar firms such as Cowan, Susie Cooper, Clarice Cliff and Roseville Futura made this modern pottery, as did old favorites such as Homer Laughlin's Fiesta, Russel Wright's American Modern, and firms with lesser-known names. Museums are already exhibiting these attractive, useful wares yet they can still be found at sales. 581 color photographs of the wares, details and maker's marks together with...
This handsome new book explores production pottery, the factory-made and hand-decorated wares produced by selected American and European companies tha...
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