ceramics-bib - 7/20/01
A ceramics, pottery and tile bibliography.
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Subject: File - Bibliography
Date: 2 Apr 2001 08:08:18 -0000
From: SCA-Potters at yahoogroups.com
To: SCA-Potters at yahoogroups.com
"A Collectors History of English Pottery"
Griselda Lewis, Viking Press, 1969
"A Guide to English Pottery and Porcelain"
R.I. Hobson
r738 B77
British Museum, 1923
"English Ceramics"
Stanley Fisher
r738 F53e
Hawthorne Books, Inc.; 1965
"English Pottery"
Bernard Rackham
r738 R11
Scribner & Sons, Inc. 1924
"European Ceramic Art"
William B. Honey
Faber and Faber Inc.; 1949
"History of Pottery"
Emmanuel Cooper
738.09 C78h
St. Martins Press; 1972
"Medieval English Pottery"
Bernard Rackham
r738.R11m
Faber and Faber
"Pottery in England from 3500 BC to 1750 AD"
K.J. Barton
738 B28P
A.S. Barnes and Co.; 1975
"The English Country Pottery"
Peter C.D. Brears
r738.3 B74e
Charles E. Tuttle Co.; 1971
"Medieval Pottery in Britain AD 900 - 1600"
M McCarthy and C. Brooks
Leiscester University Press; 1988
(an archeaological text, with diagrams. Not many actual photographs -
Gwen)
"The Secular Spirit; Life at the End of the Medieval Period"
Metropolitan Museum of Art
709.02 N42s
Dutton; 1975
(Many examples of Medieval potery from a wide range of cultures.)
"Three Books of the Potters Art"
N. Picollopasso
q738.2 p591t
(taken from the noteooks of a medieval Italian potter)
"From Viking to Crusader"
Roesdahl & Wilson
948.02 F92
(along with other artifacts, there are many photos of pottery in this
book)
"Medieval Pottery in the Yorkshire Museum"
Sara Jennings
The Yorkshire Museum; 1992
"Approaches to Archeological Ceramics"
Carla M. Sinopoli
ISBN 0-306-43575-6
"Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China:
Tz'u - Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 AD"
Yutaka Mino
University Indiana Press; 1980
"Ceramic Art From Byzantine Serres"
Demetra Papanikola-Bakirizis, Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire
University of Illinois Press, 1992
"Acqumanili; Oggetti Medievali Per Uso Sacro e Profano"
Franco Maria Ricci
ISBN 88-216-0331-81982
(while this has to do with bronzes, often potters copied in clay what
they saw in bronze.)
"English Slipware Dishes: 1650-1850"
Ronald G. Cooper
738.37 C78e
(for those who do not accept 1600 at the cut off date for the SCA)
"The Archeology of Ritual and Magic"
Ralph Merrifield
New Amsterday Books 1987
390.094 M55a
ISBN-0-941533-26-3
(A scholarly work, with many photos of pots in situ, this work shows
many of the mor unusual uses medieval pottery was put to.)
Eames, Elizabeth: Irish Medieval Tiles: Decorated Medieval Paving
Tiles in Ireland with an Inventory of Sites and Designs in
a Visual Index. Circa 1250-1550.
Royal Irish Academy Monographs in Archaeology, Royal Irish
Academy, 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2, 1988, ISBN 0901714623.
505 third scale examples, 8 colour photographs, six black and
white photographs, 47 line drawings, 148 pages. Includes a
drawing of a reconstruction of a medieval floor tile kiln. Hardbound.
Eames, Elizabeth: English Tilers, Medieval Craftmen Series;
University of Toronto Press 1992. ISBN 0802077064. Paperbound.
72 pages, 43 colour and 41 B&W Illustrations. Covers ovens,
tools, molds, techinques, many examples of embossed and inlaid
tiles, as well as shaped pattern tiles. Contains the only
surviving wooden tile stamp. Very pretty book!.
Eames, Elizabeth: English Medieval Tiles; British Museum, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985.
Contains many of the same illustrations as the English Tilers
book by the same author, 72pp. Lacks the tool illustrations
but has the surviving stamp depicted in the English tilers
book. Mainly a rearrangement of the above. color and b&W. PP.
Grafton, Carol Belanger: Old English Tile Designs for Artists and
Craftspeople; with 161 Illustrations. Origninally published
as Mediaeval English Pavingtiles, in 1937, by Lord Haberly
(Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1937). Dover original edition 1984.
161 B&W illustrations, 128pp. 8 3/8 x 11". Unprovenanced but
said to be mostly from the Oxford region.
Liebgott, Niels-Knud: Kakler, Hovedtraek af kakkeloven historie ca.
1350-1650.1972. Concerns the making and construction details
for Kakler which are the deep relief oven tiles standing ovens
are made from. Nationalmuseet, Kobenhavn.
ISBN 874807061. 39pp. paperback. Some excellent designs,
knight on horseback for example. Some are made by turning
cylinders and cutting them in half, then building the border
around them and decorating.
Sherlock, David: Medieval Floor Tiles in Suffolk Churches; Suffolk
Historic Churches Trust, paperbound, no date but post 1980.
Possibly reachable through the The Old Rectory, Chattisham,
Ipswich IP8 3PY. 47pp. 157 oftentimes very pretty designs
drawn in dark brown on a parchment colored paper. With complete
notes.
Stopford, Jennie: Recording Mediaeval Floor Tiles; Council for
British Archaeology Practical Handbook 10, 4.70GBP,
112 Kennington Road, London SE11 6RE, ISBN 1872414036.
46 page paperback with a few illustrations of tiles.
Short Bibliography.
Stopford, Jennie: Modes of Production Among Medieval Tilers;
Medieval Archaeology 37, 1993; pp. 93-108 with notes.
Van Lemmen, Hans: Decorative Tiles Throughout the Ages, with 40 full
color plates; Crescent Books, Crown Publishers, Inc. 225 Park
Ave. South, New York, NY., Bracken Books 1988. ISBN 0517679604.
Very large format book. Only a few medieval tiles in full
color,quickly goes to later Renaissance Majolica tiles. About 90
pages.
Giorgini, Frank: Handmade Tiles - Designing, Making, Decorating;
Lark Books, Asheville, N.C., USA, ISBN 0937274763. $25.
1994, 144 very well illustrated color pages including how
to make a tile press, tools, and many examples with complete
instructions as to methods for the beginner. Well worth the money.
URLs
http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/default.asp Ceramics Monthly URL
January, 1982; Vol. 30, Num. 1,"Folk Potters of Ripabianca" by Thomas
Kerrigan and Nino Caruso
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/PROJECTS/PR-project/border/border2.html
http://hackerartbooks at infohouse.com
http://www.medievalwares.com/chinese%20antiquities.htm
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