11th Annual Wedgwood International Seminar Book 1966 -English Pottery Porcelain

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The Eleventh Wedgwood International Seminar.
Dearborn; The Henry Ford Museum: 1966.
The first Wedgwood International Seminar was held in 1956, organised by Harry Buten, who would go on to found the Buten Museum of Wedgwood, and Hensleigh Wedgwood, President of Wedgwood USA. The annual seminars have been held in the United States, Canada and Britain, and feature lectures, papers, exhibitions and trips to local Wedgwood collections or museums of ceramical interest. The published Proceedings document the exhibits and events and publish the lectures and research papers.
This issue includes papers on the Iva Bunnel Vurpillat Memorial Collection of Wedgwood, Wedgwood and the American scene, the emigration of the Staffordshire potters to America, ceramics and the culture at Mackinac in the 18th century, the Portland Vase and the Eleusinian mysteries, the Darwin Portland Vase, Darwin and the Wedgwoods, ceramic transfer-printing techniques 1750-1850, English blue transfer-printed wares of the early 19th century, the Historic Montieth of the Thirteen Colonies, Wedgwood and other potters' search in the New World for clays, the English tradition in American ceramics, Longfellow the poet & Sadler the tile-pinter, Wedgwood at the Smithsonian.
Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", 173 pages, black & white illustrations. Minor cover soil.
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