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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hohokam, Fiesta, Pewabic Pottery, North Dakota Pottery, Native American Pottery, Osborne Theomun Olsen, Canton Museum of Art, Victorian Majolica, American Stoneware, Catawba Valley Pottery, New York City Subway Tiles, Uhl Pottery, Red Wing Collectors Society, Museum of Ceramics (East Liverpool, Ohio), Palissy, New York State College of Ceramics, Palissy Ware, Mesa Grande, Sparta Teapot Museum, Oregon Potters Association, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Excerpt: The term American Stoneware refers to the predominant houseware of nineteenth century North America stoneware pottery usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decorations. The vernacular term “crocks” is often used to describe this type of pottery, though the term “crock” is not seen in period documents describing the ware. Additionally, while other types of stoneware were produced in America concurrently with itfor instance, ironstone, yellowware, and various types of chinain common usage of the term, “American Stoneware” refers to this specific type of pottery.Stoneware is pottery made out of clay of the stoneware category, fired to a high temperature (about 1200°C to 1315°C). The pottery becomes, essentially, stone. Salt-glazed pottery is a type of pottery produced by adding salt to a kiln to create a glass-like coating on the pottery. At just over 900°C, the salt (sodium chloride) vaporizes and bonds with the clay body. The sodium in the salt bonds with the silica in the clay, creating sodium silicate, or glass. A very commonly employed technique seen on American Stoneware is the use of cobalt decoration, where a dark gray mixture of clay, water and the expensive mineral cobalt oxide is painted onto the unfired vessels. In the firing process, th…
American Pottery: Hohokam, Fiesta, Pewabic Pottery, North Dakota Pottery, Native American Pottery, Osborne Theomun Olsen, Canton Museum of Art
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