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American Stoneware is a type of stoneware pottery popular in 19th century North America. The predominant houseware of the era, [citation needed] it was usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decoration.
Stoneware was also produced in Korean pottery, from at least the 5th century, and much of the finest Korean pottery might be so classified; like elsewhere the border with porcelain is imprecise. Celadons and much underglaze blue and white pottery can be called stoneware. Historical stoneware production sites in Thailand are Si Satchanalai and ...
Helen Stiles, author of numerous books on the history of pottery, noted that Spanish, Mexican, and Chinese design of the 17th and 18th centuries all influenced the decoration of tile and other pottery in California. [1] As people moved into California after statehood in 1848, the demand for ceramic products grew exponentially.
The earliest history of pottery production in the Fertile Crescent starts the Pottery Neolithic and can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period (7000–6500 BC), the Halaf period (6500–5500 BC), the Ubaid period (5500–4000 BC), and the Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). By about 5000 BC pottery-making was becoming widespread ...
Oregon Pottery Company was established in the United States at Buena Vista, Oregon, in 1866. The largest pottery business on the West Coast of the United States at the time, it produced stoneware jars, jugs, and sewer pipe between 1866 and 1897 in Buena Vista and Portland, Oregon .
The Marblehead Pottery was founded in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1904 as a therapeutic program by a doctor, Herbert Hall, and taken over the following year by Arthur Eugene Baggs. The pottery's vessels are notable for simple forms and muted glazes in tones ranging from earth colors to yellow-greens and gray-blues. It closed in 1936. [7] [8]
Dictionary of Ceramics: Pottery, Glass, Vitreous Enamels, Refractories, Clay Building Materials, Cement and Concrete, Electroceramics, Special Ceramics. Maney Publishing. ISBN 978-0-901716-56-9. Levin, Elaine (1988). The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the present. Harry N. Abrams.
Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery [2] that has normally been fired below 1,200 °C (2,190 °F). [3] Basic earthenware, often called terracotta , absorbs liquids such as water. However, earthenware can be made impervious to liquids by coating it with a ceramic glaze , and such a process is used for the great majority of ...