Ceramic Arts, Pottery, Glass

The Pronomos Vase is the single most important piece of pictorial evidence for ancient theatre to have survived from ancient Greece. It depicts an ...

This book gives a fascinating account of fifteen centuries of European glass art based on the Gemeentemuseum's dazzling collection in The Hague. Th...

This fully illustrated and researched catalogue commemorates an exhibition of over 200 pieces of Chinese and related ceramics collected within th...

Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during ...

Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during ...

A comprehensive guide with recipes for making your own lustres and techniques for applying and firing them. A lustre is a thin layer of metal whic...

These 100 examples, from various Neolithic cultures throughout the region known today as China, are described in this catalogue by the collector ...

Pretiosa Vitrea, whose title is inspired by the Latin definition of glass given by Gaius Petronius in the Satyricon written in the late first centu...

Smavos, Tnösis, Cephandrion, and Graue Sonne: These words do not come from science fiction, but are instead the titles of ceramics by Gereon Krebbe...

In his third book, Christer Löfgren expands the scholarship on imperial Chinese porcelain with a radical, new interpretation of the term “Mark and ...

The Chinese title of this book reads “The Profound Reflection of Brushpots: A Collector’s Enlightenment” literally, citing reference to the book Im...

This is the first major book on English blue and white porcelain since the early 1970s. Not only is it the latest and most up-to-date work, but it ...

Eric Ravilious: Design is the latest title in the acclaimed and award winning Design Series. This new title, with text by Peyton Skipwith and B...

This fresh global survey makes sense of a vast and increasingly diverse area of intense creativity. An essential and invaluable analysis of work fr...

Parian - a high-quality, unglazed porcelain - was developed in the early 1840s by Copeland & Garrett, which was the first company to exhibit it...

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is prim...

The stained glass windows of England's cathedrals and churches are masterpieces of colour and storytelling, and for a thousand years they have brou...

An illustrated history of one of Britain's most popular potteries, by a rising star of the 'Antiques Roadshow'. Poole Pottery is a great British i...

This book explores the goals and limitations of twentieth-century art studies (Kunstwissenschaft) as a field, and aims to contribute to future acad...

Margrit Linck is one of the twentieth century’s most prominent ceramics artists. Over the course of her five-decade-long career, the ceramicist dev...

This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comi...

The great 6th-century BCE Attic potter-painter Exekias is acclaimed as the most accomplished exponent of late 'black-figure' art. His vases, vessel...

In the glass art of Franz Xaver Höller (b. 1950) artisanal techniques rich in tradition, such as cutting and engraving, collide with modern forms. ...

Ever since at least the ninth century, the Chinese province of Zhejiang has been known for its fine celadon porcelain with wonderful shimmering sur...

This exhaustive monograph, published on the occasion of the first anthological exhibition dedicated to him, retraces the intensely lived, brief art...

This inventory catalogue presents reverse glass paintings offering outstanding documentation of the history of European reverse glass art from the ...

This is the first major study of the subject in over seventy years. In a triumph of scholarship, Stefano Carboni has drawn on a huge range of sourc...

Wonderfully preserved Greek vases are a unique source of information about the mythology, religion, drama and daily life of the ancient Greek world...

Sir Percival David made one of the finest collections of Chinese ceramics outside Asia. It includes many items of imperial quality, with beautiful ...

This book is an introduction to Italian Renaissance ceramics. These colourful and highly decorative wares form a distinctive and significant part o...

The term ‘jar’ refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar – re...

With the exception of early Egypt and Minoan Crete, no early culture had such a vigorous stone vase-making industry as the Cyclades. Figures and ve...

The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary ol...

At the 25th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, which took place in one of the greatest of all museums, The Hermitage in St. Petersbu...

Glass is a threshold material, serving as both a divider and an opening, for one can always see what is behind it. This is a unique phenomenon and ...

"Greek Vases" is a discussion of the painted vases which were an ever-present but understated feature of life in the Greek world between the end of...

With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed early modern optical technology and visuality. It a...

This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The maj...

The Hosmer Collection is one of the most significant collections of secular pre-modern stained glass in North America and the largest in Canada. In...

Rosemarie Benedikt ist eine der international profiliertesten Keramikerinnen aus Österreich und als Glaskünstlerin nahezu singulär. Tierskulpturen ...

Porcelain and bone china have fascinated patrons, collectors and makers for centuries. This practical book looks at their composition, making meth...