Stoneware of Bennington - Shapes Types Marks incl. Crocks Jugs / Scarce Book

Description

Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white, this early out-of-print book is a definitive guide to Bennington pottery and stoneware.  The information on shapes, patterns, dates, and marks coupled with in-depth narrative make this book an invaluable resource reference work.
THE JUG AND RELATED STONEWARE OF BENNINGTON
by Cornelius Osgood, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Vermont, 1971.
“The stoneware jugs and other salt-glazed pottery, including churns and pitchers, produced during the nineteenth century at the Norton potteries in Bennington are among the highly prized and most fascinating objects sought after by collectors of genuinely American antiques.  Here is a most comprehensive and lucid account of their hundred-year history, based on long research and written with meticulous care by Yale University’s noted Professor of Anthropology, Cornelius Osgood, whose extensive study collection was carefully built up over decades.  Illustrated with 38 figures, 8 color, and 23 black-and-white plates depicting over 100 stoneware objects, this book is invaluable for its identification and analysis of the Norton designs, outstanding as examples of American folk art.  It also reviews the manufacture of pottery from the earliest times and throughout its development in New England.  The Director of the Bennington Museum, Richard Carter Barret, has described this highly readable book as the definitive work in its field and one which will become an all-time classic of ceramic history.”
7.75’ x 10.6” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.   222 pages.
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