The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware
Hardcover
1971 · New York
by Mountford, Arnold R.
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. G+ (DJ shows some aging and may be corner clipped; pages and text are clean; may carry former owner's bookplate.). Dark orange cloth, gilt letters on spine, white and illus. DJ. xxi, 88 pp. 8 color, 244 bw plates. "This copiously illustrated boko is the first work to be devoted to Staffordshire salt-glazed ware -- a delicate and highly collectable class of pottery that, in it lightness and fine potting, closely rivaled porcelain in the eighteenth century. Although the basic process of glazing by the introduction of salt into the kilns during the firing of the ware originated in Germany, the Staffordshire productions were quite different in design and are in a class of their own. Staffordshire salt-glazed ware is intricately molded, often in elaborate forms and sometimes depicting historical events. It is lighter in weight than porcelain of the same period. This eighteenth-century ware brought Staffordshire pottery from the kitchens into the drawing rooms. Staffordshire salt-glazed ware, widely exported, established an overseas trade that was to persist when the cream-ware body superseded salt-glaze -- a trade continued in fine bone china today." (dj). (Inventory #: 32213)