A Collector's Guide to European and American Art Pottery with Current Values

Pottery and ceramics as a medium of artistic express ion predates antiquity. The 18th Century is considered the golden age of ceramic and porcelain. Whereas the art of ceramics reached great height in Europe and China, the pieces were only for the rich. In the first half of the 19th Century the aim of the workshops was to duplicate the great works of an earlier period, so that it would be available to the public at large.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

HISTORY OF ART POTTERY

PRODUCTION OF ART POTTERY

TECHNIQUES AND PRODUCTION

COLLECTING. EVALUATING AND PRICING ART POTTERY

DUTCH

BELGIAN

FRENCH & ENGLISH

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