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Pottery in the making : ceramic traditions / edited by Ian Freestone and David Gaimster.

Contributor(s): Freestone, Ian | Gaimster, David R. M | British Museum | Museum of MankindMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1997. Description: 240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cmISBN: 1560987979; 071411782XSubject(s): Pottery -- History -- Exhibitions | Ceramics -- History -- Exhibitions | Pottery -- HistoryGenre/Form: HistoryLOC classification: NK3780 | .P68 1997X
Contents:
Jomon pottery in ancient Japan / Victor Harris -- Early pottery in the Middle Nile Valley / Derek Welsby -- Early prehistoric pottery in Britain / Gillian Varndell and Ian Freestone -- Prehistoric ceramics in Mesopotamia / St. John Simpson -- Pottery in predynastic Egypt / A. J. Spencer -- Early urban ceramic industries in Mesopotamia / St. John Simpson -- Ceramic changes in Late Iron Age Britain / Val Rigby and Ian Freestone -- Dynastic Egyptian pottery / A. J. Spencer -- Canaanite potter's workshop in Palestine / Pamela Magrill and Andrew Middleton -- Partho-Sasanian ceramic industries in Mesopotamia / St. John Simpson -- Ash-glazed stonewares in japan / Victor Harris -- Ancient Greek pottery / Dyfri Williams -- Highly decorated pottery in Medieval England / Beverley Nenk -- Korean Celadons of the Koryo Dynasty / Jane Portal -- Faience in the ancient Mediterranean world / A. J. Spencer and Louise Schofield -- Islamic lustreware / Sheila R. Canby -- Maiolica production in Renaissance Italy / Dora Thornton -- Stoneware production in Medieval and Early modern German / David Gaimster -- Regional decorative traditions in English Post-Medieval slipware / David Gaimster -- Urban pottery workshops in North Africa / Julie Hudson -- Traditional rural potting in West Africa / Nigel Barley -- Pottery in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Cathy Haith -- Early Iron Age rural ceramic traditions in Iran / St. John Simpson -- Tiles in Roman Britain / Andrew Middleton -- Roman pottery lamps / Donald M. Bailey -- Terracotta figurines of Eastern Gujarat / T. Richard Blurton -- Whistling vessel
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Folio Folio The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 53 - Main Room 		A3b(f) LONDO 18167 Not for loan BOOKS*000000014864

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, mounted by the British Museum at the Museum of Mankind, London, from July 3 to December 31, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-235) and index.

Jomon pottery in ancient Japan / Victor Harris -- Early pottery in the Middle Nile Valley / Derek Welsby -- Early prehistoric pottery in Britain / Gillian Varndell and Ian Freestone -- Prehistoric ceramics in Mesopotamia / St. John Simpson -- Pottery in predynastic Egypt / A. J. Spencer -- Early urban ceramic industries in Mesopotamia / St. John Simpson -- Ceramic changes in Late Iron Age Britain / Val Rigby and Ian Freestone -- Dynastic Egyptian pottery / A. J. Spencer -- Canaanite potter's workshop in Palestine / Pamela Magrill and Andrew Middleton -- Partho-Sasanian ceramic industries in Mesopotamia / St. John Simpson -- Ash-glazed stonewares in japan / Victor Harris -- Ancient Greek pottery / Dyfri Williams -- Highly decorated pottery in Medieval England / Beverley Nenk -- Korean Celadons of the Koryo Dynasty / Jane Portal -- Faience in the ancient Mediterranean world / A. J. Spencer and Louise Schofield -- Islamic lustreware / Sheila R. Canby -- Maiolica production in Renaissance Italy / Dora Thornton -- Stoneware production in Medieval and Early modern German / David Gaimster -- Regional decorative traditions in English Post-Medieval slipware / David Gaimster -- Urban pottery workshops in North Africa / Julie Hudson -- Traditional rural potting in West Africa / Nigel Barley -- Pottery in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Cathy Haith -- Early Iron Age rural ceramic traditions in Iran / St. John Simpson -- Tiles in Roman Britain / Andrew Middleton -- Roman pottery lamps / Donald M. Bailey -- Terracotta figurines of Eastern Gujarat / T. Richard Blurton -- Whistling vessel