North Carolina Art Pottery 1900-1960

North Carolina Art Pottery 1900-1960

North Carolina "art pottery" is a recent concept. This familiar concept is now being u ed to describe and explain new information that is also the consequence of a new way of seeing things that were already there. As our knowledge of the extent and influence of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States has increased and expanded, scholars, collectors, and museum curators have been encouraged to review attitudes that held sway for many years. In the past 10 years I have personally experienced a radical shift in the descriptions of and appreciation for North Carolina pottery made between roughly 1910 and 1950.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

The Tradition and Challenge of Collecting North Carolina Pottery

Examining the Clay

Evaluating the Glaze

The Forms of North Carolina Art Pottery

Transitional Ware

Identification Of North Carolina Pottery:An Inexact Science

The Rare and Unusual in North Carolina Art Pottery

Signs, Stamps, Shapes, and Symbols

Native American Pottery of North Carolina

Art Pottery of the Catawba Valley

Mountain Pottery of Western North Carolina

Cole Pottery: A Tradition

Auman Pottery: 1922 - 1937

Seagrove Pottery

The Pioneer Potter: Nell Cole Graves

Royal Crown Pottery, 1939 - 1942

The Teagues

M.L. Owens: The Dean of N.C. Art Pottery

The Owen (Owens) Tradition

North State Pottery: The Legacy of the Coopers

Jugtown: A Place, a Concept or an Industry

Smithfield Pottery

The Implications of Condition

Sources and Techniques of Collecting of North Carolina Art Pottery

Tourist Pottery

Bibliography