WSNY - Ars Ceramica

Ars Ceramica

1999/2000, Number 16

President's Letter
Wedgwood's Oven Booksby Robin Emmerson
Recent Research in the Wedgwood Archives: Early Developments in Caneware, by Diana Edwards
Francis Place, Seventeenth-Century English Potter and Man of Enlightenment, by Patricia M. Korry
Eighteenth-Century Tiled Fireplaces in the Delaware Valley by Ronald W. Fuchs II
Henry Sanders, a Forgotten Pate-sur-Pate Artist, by Bernard Bumpus
In Memoriam - Vivian S. Hawes (1923-1999)

On the cover: A Wedgwood vase of tree-trunk form, shape 256 in the company's first ornamental ware shape book, marked WEDGWOOD, 8 1/4" (21.0 cm) h., Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. The first certain listing of shape 256 in Wedgwood's oven books is for the biweekly period beginning January 4, 1783, "256 6 & 5 Cuped flower pots lalock & green leaves and white." It is of note that such objects were assigned shape numbers, and a careful comparison of the shape books to the records in the surviving oven books permits an estimate of the date of first production of many Wedgwood objects. See pages 10 to 35 and figure 23 on p. 23. Photograph reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.

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