Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces (National Trust Series)

About this book

Winner of the 2017 American Ceramics Circle Book of the Year Award The aim of this publication is to introduce the rich and varied ceramics in the National Trusts vast and encyclopedic collection numbering approximately 75 000 artifacts housed in 250 historic properties in England Wales and Northern Ireland. One hundred key pieces have been selected from this rich treasure trove each contributing to our knowledge of ceramic patronage and history revealing the very personal stories of ownership display taste and consumption. The selection includes the following Continental wares: "Red-figure" wares Italian armorial tablewares Dutch Delft from the Greek A factory - owned by Adrianus Kocx - Chinese Kraak ware Dehua ware Japanese Kakiemon-style and Imari-style tablewares and garnitures Meissen table sculpture by Johann Joachim Kndler and tablewares attributed to Adam Friedrich von Lwenfinck Castelli fayence from the Grue workshop and wares from the following porcelain manufactories: Doccia Vienna Vincennes Svres Dihl and Feulliet. English pottery and porcelain includes delftware salt-glazed stoneware creamware Wedgwood Black Basalt and Etruscan ware Chelsea Bow Worcester and Derby porcelain Minton China De Morgan and Martin ware. And from the Americas Pueblo ware. Many are published for the first time sometimes illustrated in their original interiors. Collectively the selection surveys patterns of ceramic collecting by the British aristocracy and gentry over a four hundred year period.