Native American pottery of the US southwest has long been considered collectible and today can fetch many thousands of dollars per piece. Authors, col...

The perfect dining room decoration for folk art lovers, redware embodies an enduring charm. From its basic clay tones to hand-painted adornments, the ...

Art Deco was arguably the twentieth century's most popular and memorable design movement, and has come to define the inter-war period with its clean s...

Portmeirion pottery evolved from a souvenir shop in North Wales into a twenty-first-century global business, thanks to the flair and vision of Susan W...

Majolica has been receiving growing recognition as a ceramic collectible and has experienced a consequent growth in value. Here, author Mike Schneider...

Blue and white ironstone dinnerware has been collected for many years, and the introduction of the Liberty Blue pattern in 1975 by Enoch Wedgwood of E...

It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the diction...

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American potters were struggling to produce quality ceramics to rival that of the English and Frenc...

Kitsch for the kitchen is cool and this book covers a golden era for culinary design. Enter and enjoy gadgets and glasses, table accessories and texti...

Spongeware and spatterware, colorful country pottery which was traditionally a favorite of the American public, remains enormously popular with today'...

This new book is an excellent reference for the multitude of ceramics items marked "MADE IN JAPAN" that were exported between 1921 and 1941, after Jap...

A new and quickly popularized field of collectibles is lady head vases which were manufactured in the 1950's to the middle 1960's and sold by florists...

If you love collecting and are looking for a new collectible, this book is for you! Pictured are hundreds of planters imported since the 1950s, mainly...

Here is the first concise handbook to the ceramic dining services and house wares with distinctive Flow Blue transfer decoration. This handy reference...

This is the first book to address the collectibility of figural animal pitchers. For many years, ceramics manufacturers have made pitchers in the shap...

The Potters and Potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania has been the bible of pottery research nationally, as it has inspired others to document pot...

The book contains page after page of color and black and white photographs. This is the exhibit catalog from the Scarborough Art Gallery. This is a ve...

The American Arts and Crafts Movement is one of the most exciting and inspiring chapters in the history of the decorative arts. Rooted in the English ...

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 ...

There are few collectibles that so vividly mark a design period as do the colorful ceramic fish, bubbles, mermaids, and seahorses of the 1950s and 196...

In 90 beautiful color and 70 clear black and white photographs, yellow ware is shown to be an attractive and important ceramic. Through this book, yel...

Revisit the 1950s, when poodles were all the rage, and ceramic artists were busy experimenting with a technique perfect for portraying these canines. ...

A feat of great technical achievement, French faience was introduced to Lyon in the second half of the sixteenth century by skilled Italian immigrants...

Forming a collection of antique porcelain is surprisingly simple with the aid of this book, written by a foremost authority. John Sandon presents the ...

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a reaction to the brutality of working life and the sterility of industrial design in Victorian Britain. Although Art...

The compelling story of a slave, owned by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular stoneware pottery artists of the nineteenth century. ...

From the Publisher "Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati - the largest, longest-lasting, and arguably most important producer of American art pottery - refl...

Out of Print;  Full color plates of over 200 pieces of art pottery from the collections of The American Ceramic Arts Society; 111 pgs. incl. plates an...

Conatins more than 10,000 listings, an illustrated price guide with histories & references for more than 200 categories - the only price guide of its ...

Starting in the Victorian years of the 19th century, hearty oyster consumption made special, beautifully crafted "oyster plates" a necessity in fashio...