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Book Review
Julian Stair: Memory, Materials, Ceramics
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 524–5
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Reviewer:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
artists:
Stair, Julian
dates:
2020-2030
subjects:
Pottery / Ceramics
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Julian Stair: Memory, Materials, Ceramics By Ashley Thorpe. 288 pp. incl. 250 col. ills. (Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2024), £40. ISBN 978–0–300–27807–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Installation view of Art, Death and the Afterlife at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, 2023, showing Somatic jars, by Julian Stair. 2023. Etruria marl, carboniferous shale, stoneware and slip, maximum height 117 cm. (Courtesy Sainsbury Centre, Norwich).
Exhibition Review
Shōji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 448-449
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Reviewer:
Stair, Julian (Stair, Julian)
Subjects
artists:
Shoji Hamada / Leach, Bernard
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling, E. Sussex, Great Britain
subjects:
Japanese art / Pottery
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Shōji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft 22nd October 2022–16th April 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Charger, by Shōji Hamada. c.1923. Stoneware with slip trailed decoration, 10.9 by 41 cm. (Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; exh. Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft).
Attributed works:
15. Teapot, by Shōji Hamada. 1920–23. Stoneware with scratched decoration with iron tenmoku and khaki glaze, 12 by 20 cm. (School of Art Museum and Galleries, Aberystwyth University; exh. Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft).
Attributed works:
16. Bottle, by Shōji Hamada. 1923. Stoneware with sgraffito decoration through cream slip, 21.9 by 7.8 cm. (Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; exh. Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft).
Exhibition Review
Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 411-414
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Edward S. (Cooke, Edward S.)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, Great Britain / Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, United States / Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
subjects:
Majolica / Ceramics / Pottery / Earthenware / British art / American art / Minton Porcelain Factory / Wedgwood porcelain / Worcester Porcelain Factory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 Edited by Susan Weber, with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs, Eleanor Hughes, Earl Martin and Laura Microulis. 3 vols, 1,008 pp. incl. 1,200 col. + b. & w. ills. (Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, and the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021), $300. ISBN 978–0–300–25104–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Pedestal and jardinière, by George Jones & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent. Designed c.1880. Earthenware with majolica glazes and metal, height 112.9 cm. (English Collection).
Attributed works:
14. Peacock, designed by Paul Comoléra for Minton & Co. Designed c.1873, made 1876. Earthenware with majolica glazes, height 152 cm. (English Collection).
Attributed works:
15. ‘Japonica’ teaware and jugs, by D.F. Haynes & Co., Chesapeake Pottery, Baltimore. c.1882–86. Earthenware with majolica glazes, sugar bowl: 12.1 by 14.7 by 11 cm.; creamer: 9 by 12 by 10 cm.; teapot: 16 by 18.5 by 13 cm.; tall jug: 18.4 by 15 by 11 cm.; and small jug: 14 by 11 by 8.5 cm. (Private collection).
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A dish from the Cantagalli workshop in the British Museum
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 816-823
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Author:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
art literature:
Robinson, J.C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913 / Franks, Augustus Wollaston / Fortnum, Charles Drury
artists:
Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel / Beaumont, Adalbert de / Delacroix, Eugène / Leighton, Frederic, First Baron Leighton of Stretton / De Morgan, William / Vollon, Antoine
collectors and dealers:
Wallace, Richard, Sir, 1818-1890 / Stibbert, Frederick / Schwiter, Baron Louis-Auguste / Nieuwerkerke, Alfred Emilien
dates:
1850-1899 / 2010-2019
media:
Maiolica / Ceramics / Drawings / Watercolours / Interiors
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France / Musée national de céramique, Sévres, France / Bethnal Green Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Italy / Florence / Turkey / Iznik
subjects:
Damascus Pottery (Iznik) / Cantagalli manufactory, Florence, Italy / Workshops (Organisations) / Plates / Dishes / Colour / Ornament / Pigments / Glazes / Fatimid pottery syles / Valencian / Mamluk / Islamic / Ottoman / Orientalism / Pottery / Decorative arts / Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Gifts / Bequests / Art museums / Catalogues / Provenance / Visual sources
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Iznik-style dish, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1890–95. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 41 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of the dish illustrated in Fig.1, showing the cockerel mark for the Cantagalli workshop.
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3. Iznik-style dish with scalloped edge and floral sprays, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1899. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 39 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Iznik-style vase, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. 1883. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 57 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Curiosités, by Antoine Vollon. 1868. Canvas, 264 by 192 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. The sixteenth-century room at Hertford House, London, looking north, by J.J.Thomson. c.1890. Photograph. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Iznik rimless dish with flower sprays, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1550. Fritware painted in underglaze blues, green and mauve, diameter 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Iznik dish with peahen amid prunus branches, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1580–90. Fritware painted in underglaze blue, green and red, diameter 47.4 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Western art unattributed:
7. The comte de Nieuwerkerke’s collections in his private apartments in the Louvre, unknown photographer. c.1865. Stereoscopic glass negative. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Exhibition Review
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 503-506
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Reviewer:
Haslam, Malcolm (Haslam, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Leach, Bernard / Rie, Lucie / Dresser, Christopher / De Morgan, William / Martin, Robert Wallace
artists:
Martin, Edwin / Haile, Sam / Newland, William / Perry, Grayson
collectors and dealers:
Driscoll, John
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
Great Britain / Cambridge / United States / New Haven
subjects:
Pottery / Studios (work spaces) / Potters / Ceramicists / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Leaning blue and white pot, by Alison Britton. 1987. Handbuilt, high-fired earthenware, painted with slip and underglaze pigment under a clear matt glaze. 48 by 35.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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21. Moon jar, by Akiko Hirai. 2016. Stoneware, porcelain slip, paper fibre, wood ash, and white glaze, 52 by 46 cm. (Collection of Akiko Hirai, London; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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22. In praise of shadows, by Grayson Perry. 2005. Coiled stoneware, stencilled and inlaid slip, transparent glaze, handdrawn and photographic transfers, gold lustre, 80 by 50 cm. (Private collection; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Book Review
Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval, Renaissance and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum. By Timothy Wilson
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 254-255
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1599
media:
Maiolica / Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
France / Italy / Netherlands / Belgium / Great Britain / Oxford
subjects:
Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Provenance / Castel Durante Maiolica / Pottery / Decorative arts / Medici Porcelain Factory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Dish with a composite head of penises, by Francesco Urbini. c.1536. Tin-glazed earthenware, possibly Gubbio. Diameter 23.2 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Book Review
Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 421-422
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Reviewer:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
artists:
Rie, Lucie
subjects:
Ceramics / Pottery / Ceramicists / British / Austrian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
71. Bowl, by Lucy Rie (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Book Review
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 421
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Reviewer:
Adamson, Glenn (Adamson, Glenn)
Subjects
artists:
Cardew, Michael
artists:
Kwali, Ladi
subjects:
Biographies / Ceramicists / British / Ceramics / Pottery
subjects:
African
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. Baking dish, by Michael Cardew (University of Aberystwyth; photographed by Stephen Brayne)
Book Review
La faïence de Nevers 1585–1900
06/2012 | 1311 | 154
Pages: 428-429
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1599 / 1600-1799 / 1800-1899
places:
Nevers / France
print:
Nevers Faience Manufactory
subjects:
Ceramics / Surveys / Cultural history / Social history / Techniques / Pottery / Glazes / Nevers Faience Manufactory
subjects:
French
Reviewed Items
subjects:
La faïence de Nevers 1585–1900 | author: Rosen, Jean
Illustrations
Attributed works:
63. Plate showing the Judgment of Paris, by Denis Lefebvre. c.1630–40. Tin-glazed ceramic, diameter 45.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
The Leeds Pottery 1770–1881. To which is Appended an Illustrated Account of the Work of the Revivalist, J. & G.W. Senior and J.T. Morton 1880s to c.1950
06/2006 | 1239 | 148
Pages: 426
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Reviewer:
Poole, Julia E. (Poole, Julia E.; Poole, J. E.)
Subjects
artists:
Senior, James Wraith / Morton, John Thomas
dates:
1770-1779 / 1780-1829 / 1830-1859 / 1860-1929 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1940-1959
museums and institutions:
Leeds Pottery, Leeds, Great Britain
print:
English pottery
subjects:
Pottery / Potteries / Ceramics / English / British
subjects:
Monographs / Potters / Ceramicists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Leeds Pottery 1770–1881. To which is Appended an Illustrated Account of the Work of the Revivalist, J. & G.W. Senior and J.T. Morton 1880s to c.1950 | author: Griffin, John D.
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