Ceramics in America 2021

This 2021 volume of Ceramics in America presents compelling scholarship on ceramics within American history and collecting. Featured essays include newly reported seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain from Jamestown, Virginia (ca. 1607), and archaeologically recovered Chinese export porcelain from James and Dolley Madison's Montpelier. Articles examine ceramics commemorating significant historical and political events in America and Great Britain, while four substantial pieces document nineteenth-century American stonewares from Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Virginia. The collection also features a collector's survey of important eighteenth-century armorial Chinese porcelain, a profile of North Carolina potter David Stuempfle and his wood-fired stoneware practice, and analysis of early nineteenth-century slip-decorated earthenwares attributed to Enoch Wood and James Caldwell of Burslem, Staffordshire.

224 pages, 8.82 x 11.2 in, 186 illustrations.

Contents:

Introduction
Robert Hunter

Jingdezhen, China . . . Bantam, Java . . . Jamestown, Virginia: Degrees of Separation for a Porcelain Bowl
Bly Straube

Fit for a Queen: A Chinese Porcelain Bottle Found at Jamestown, Virginia
Merry Outlaw

From China to Virginia: A Dish with a View of the Dutch Folly Fort in Guangzhou
Matthew Reeves and Ronald W. Fuchs II

Art and Ancestry: The Bruce Coleman Perkins Collection of Chinese Armorial Porcelain
Bruce Coleman Perkins

English Creamware in Revolutionary Era America
L. Daniel Mouer and Deborah L. Miller

“He in Glory, America in Tears”: Jacob Perkins, Washington Funeral Medal, and Liverpool Jugs
Adam Erby

The Thames Tunnel Inkwell
John Ault

Tribute to an Unsung Hero
Sam Margolin

The Eighteenth-Century Stoneware of Ashbel Wells Jr. of Hartford, Connecticut, Revealed
Robert Hunter

The Little Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts
Lorraine German

Newly Discovered Examples from DuVal’s Richmond Stoneware Manufactory
Robert Hunter

The Invisible American Potter: Potter: Justus Morton of Brantford, Ontario
Sylvia Lovegren-Petras

Coincidental Attribution
Jonathan Rickard and Donald Carpentiert

A Study in Rhythm: The Stoneware of David Stuempfle
Robert Hunter with David Stuempfle

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Ceramics in America stands as an essential annual publication from the Chipstone Foundation, bridging scholarship and collecting with rigorous interdisciplinary perspective. Each volume explores historical ceramics within American cultural, social, and material contexts—from archaeological inquiry to contemporary studio practice. Indispensable for collectors seeking depth, curators building institutional knowledge, decorative arts students, historical researchers, and working potters alike.