Thomas maddock s sons (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Thomas Maddock's Sons, (Trenton, NJ), 1910
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fine. Limited ed. Square octavo in forest green cloth lined in black and lettered in gilt. Limited to an unspecified number of copies, this copy out of sequence and unnumbered. A tight, generally fine example, 224 pp. chapter capitals in red and black. Illustrated with full page plates, frontis and one additi…onal plate in color with tissue guard, profusely illustrated with smaller drawings throughout. This handsome volume begins with a history of the potter's art with images of ancient examples. Following that is a chapter "Sanitary Pottery in the United States which is essentially the story of Thomas Maddock, the Trenton pottery maker whose company published this book. Nest is a section on The Materials, followed by "How Sanitary Earthen Ware is Made" with images from the factory. The second half of the volume consists of extensive illustrated listings of "Marks of Foreign Potters, Ancient & Modern" (with hundreds of examples including from Italy, Persia, France, Rhodes, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, Russia, Japan, China) followed by "Marks of American Potters" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, New England, Southern Potteries, Western Potteries). Thomas Maddock was an innovative pioneer in the manufacture of pottery in Trenton. He began working for Millingon & Asbury in 1872 with Maddock's name added the following year. His factory, which still stands in Hamilton, New Jersey though it is now an office building, was built in 1924-25 to manufacture "sanitary pottery". One of the plates in the book is a full page portrait engraving of Thomas Maddock.