ceramics-bib - 7/20/01 A ceramics, pottery and tile bibliography. NOTE: See also the files: pottery-msg, pottery-whels-msg, tiles-art, tiles-msg, aquamaniles-msg, utensils-msg, p-tableware-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ 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. http://www.ria.ie/ 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://www.potterytools.com http://ceramics.about.com http://nautarch.tamu.edu/PROJECTS/PR-project/border/border2.html http://hackerartbooks at infohouse.com http://PotWeb.ashmol.ox.ac.uk http://www.medievalwares.com/chinese%20antiquities.htm http://www.ria.ie/ Edited by Mark S. Harris ceramics-bib Page 4 of 4