Pottery: A History of the Pottery Industry

In presenting this book, The Thomas Maddock's Sons Company, with the assistance of such able authorities as Dr. Edwin AtLee Barber, Dr. G. B. Gordon, Hooper & Phillips' ''Manual of Marks on Pottery and Porcelain," Barber's "Marks of American Potters," Paliser's "China Collector's Companion," Prime's "Pottery and Porcelain," have undertaken to arrange for its patrons and friends a reliable sketch of the origin and growth of the sanitary potting industry in the United States.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

PREFACE

THE UNIVERSAL ART

SANITARY POTTERY IN THE UNITED STATES

THE MATERIALS

HOW SANITARY EARTHENWARE IS MADE

THE WATER CLOSET AND IT’S EVOLUTION FROM A MECHANICAL DEVICE TO THE VITROUS BOWL OF THE PRESENT

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SANITARY WARE IN THE UNITED STATES

MARKS ON FOREIGN PORCELAIN

MARKS OF AMERICAN POTTERS