WSNY - Ars Ceramica 2009, Number 25

2015, Number 31

Published July 2019

President's Letter
In Your Words: Memories of Bernie and Lydia Starr Assembled by Joanne Starr Wolfe and Letitia Roberts
Basalt Sculpture in the Starr Collection by Brian D. Gallagher
“I have seen the Vases, Encaustick & like them exceedingly” by Gaye Blake-Roberts
The Sanderson - Chrysler - Starr Copy of the Portland Vase by Harwood A. Johnson
When business & amusement can be made to go hand in hand: Josiah Wedgwood’s Jasper Initiative by Diana Edwards
Bernie and Lydia and Caneware by David M. Pendergast
The Starr Collection: A Marriage of Art and Industry by Jeffrey Tulman
Risk, Ambition, Daring Invention: Celebrating the 2018 Wolfe and Starr Family Gift of British Ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Iris Moon
Bernie Starr, the Buten Wedgwood Collection, and the Birmingham Museum of Art by Anne Forschler-Tarrasch
The Starr Wedgwood And Ceramics Library by Stephen J. Bury
Investigating George Owen: The Lydia Starr Collection by John Sandon
Bernard Starr, Collector and Friend: Some Ceramic Bits and Pieces by Robert Harrison

On the cover: Items from the Starr Collection, including a Wedgwood black basalt encausticdecorated amphora vase, possibly c. 1785;
one of a pair of Wedgwood and Bentley “fish-tail” ewers, c. 1770; the Sanderson-Chrysler-Starr copy of the Portland Vase, c. 1790;
a Wedgwood blue and white jasperware “wine” ewer, c. 1790; and a pair of Mintons pāte-sur-pāte vases by Marc Louis Solon, c. 1890.
Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby’s, Inc. ©2019

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