Pottery category: 136 books
by Kyle Husfloen, Louise Irvine
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2006
This comprehensive guide captures all the prestige and rich history of Royal Doulton, and delivers the expert pricing and product details needed by today's collectors. With nearly 200 years of bone and fine china production, the craftsmanship and hand-painted detail of Royal Doulton figurines and...
Mosaic Garden Projects
Add Color to Your Garden with Tables, Fountains, Bird Baths, and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
“This thorough guide to techniques, tools, and materials is filled with expert tips and tricks. The detailed project instructions will inspire you to make your own mosaicked mark on the landscape.” —Lorene Edwards Forkner, author of Handmade Garden Projects
In Mosaic Garden Projects,...
Utopic Impulses
Contemporary Ceramics Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice brings together ten essays and twenty artist projects to explore ceramics as a socially responsible practice. By framing particular ceramics practices as 'utopic impulses,' this anthology envisions new and stimulating conceptions of how studio ceramics...
Craft Perception and Practice
A Canadian Discourse, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The series of Craft Perception and Practice volumes gives recognition to the exciting new developments in contemporary craft practice and scholarship. This second volume brings together 22 essays and critical commentaries by 19 independent critics and curators, professional artists, art historians,...
Clayworks in Art Therapy
Plying the Sacred Circle
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Clay is universally recognized as a medium of creative expression, and it also has great potential for therapeutic application. These two properties of clay are celebrated together in a book that explores the history, theory and techniques of claywork in eliciting therapeutic outcomes. Vignettes and...
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Après son apparition au VIIe siècle, l'art de la porcelaine en Chine est rapidement devenu un symbole important de la royauté et de la haute société. Ce livre offre une large gamme d'objets, des simples bols aux magnifiques vases et autres ornements aux motifs complexes et multicolores. La délicatesse...
To Buy or Not to Buy:
Burial Ceramics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
A basic picture guidebook to recognizing the authenticity of Pre-Columbian burial artifacts. Appraisals are used most often to confirm the authenticity and current value of items. Getting an appraisal can help owners get an idea of how much they should insure items for. Appraisals help both sellers and...
Pattern
& the secrets of lasting design
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This is the black and white paperback ebook edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.
If you would like the original colour illustrated version of Pattern it is available in hardback ISBN 9781444734942 and ebook ISBN 9781444734966.
Creativity, collaboration, inspiration
Emma...
Warman's Lalique
Identification and Price Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Demanding high price tags, the superior work of the fine French artisan Rene Lalique is not only breathtakingly beautiful, but highly collectible synonymous with fine luxurious art glass worldwide.
From the strikingly bold and original Art Nouveau and art deco styles of Rene Lalique, and those...
Art of Handmade Tile
Complete Instructions for Carving, Casting & Glazing
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Creating handmade decorator tiles can be fun and easy!
This friendly approach to making handmade ceramic tiles demonstrates how to design, fire, and decorate stunning tiles and provides ideas for creatively utilizing them in the home. More than 200 photos guide readers through each step of...
Soulwork of Clay
A Hands-On Approach to Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Let go of your pretensions—squeeze, shape, knead & play your way to spiritual growth.
"I am being formed by the clay. I am reconnecting with the earth, and with the other basic elements, too—air, water, fire—and life itself. Every gesture leaves its trail in the clay. Every fingerprint,...
Ceramics and Globalization
Staffordshire Ceramics, Made in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation in both familiar and unexpected ways.
Although many manufacturers such as Wedgwood initially moved production to cheaper labour markets in East...
by John Shuman, III
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Daring designers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Reneacute Lalique are remembered for their intricate pattern creations with glass that pushed the evolution of design. These entrancingly beautiful masterpieces of yesterday are commanding high prices in today's antiques and collectibles marketplace....
Ardmore. We Are Because of Others
The Story of Fée Halsted and Ardmore Ceramic Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Colourful, imaginative, vibrant, delicate and dramatic – these are just some of the hallmarks of the artworks that have garnered international accolades for Ardmore Ceramic Art in rural KwaZulu-Natal. It is here, in South Africa’s most successful ceramics studio set in the verdant Midlands, that...