Pottery: being a Simple Account of the History of Pottery and a Description of some of the Processes employed in its Manufacture. Pottery and Porcelain: a Handbook for Collectors

Abstract

THE first-mentioned of these works might, happily, serve as an introduction and technical aid to the important and comprehensive handbook with which it is associated in this notice. Its authors have accomplished their modest scheme with such ability and success as to give the reader who is not a potter an insight into the practical methods which are followed in the manufacture of the multifarious articles of pottery and porcelain, whether intended for everyday use or as the embodiment of precious artistry, which men treasure in our day even as they seem to have prized and collected such things for unnumbered years. The clarity and simplicity with which the technical informa tion is presented-together with excellent illustrations and photographic reproductions of the tools, methods, and processes used by the Staffordshire potters of our timedeserve warm commendation. Apart from the immediate aim of the writers, which has been to aid the student-workman who is engaged in the craft, every collector of pottery and porcelain who wishes to acquire clear ideas of how the precious objects he treasures were made will find this a handy and reliable little work of reference, to be used in conjunction with those voluminous histories of the potters achievements in which technical matters are not always treated with such simplicity and precision.

Pottery: being a Simple Account of the History of Pottery and a Description of some of the Processes employed in its Manufacture.

(Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries.) By Charles J. Noke and Harold J. Plant. Pp. xi + 136. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.) 3s. net.

Pottery and Porcelain: a Handbook for Collectors.

Translated from the Danish of Emil Hannover. Edited with Notes and Appendices by Bernard Rackham. Vol. 1. Europe and the Near East: Earthenware and Stoneware. Pp. 589 + 7 plates. (25s. net.) Vol. 2. The Far East. Pp. 287 + 2 plates. (18s. net.) Vol. 3. European Porcelain. Pp. 571 + 2 plates. (25s. net.) (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1925.)