• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN POTTERY1
  • Contributor: Sherwood, Robert F.
  • imprint: Wiley, 1925
  • Published in: Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1925.tb16399.x
  • ISSN: 0002-7820; 1551-2916
  • Keywords: Materials Chemistry ; Ceramics and Composites
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  • Description: <jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>This paper deals with pottery and porcelain from the time of the Fall of Rome through the sixteenth century. Italian pottery before the Renaissance and Majolica ware are discussed under Italian pottery. French pottery is classed under the two heads of Faience and Palissy ware. The influence of the Moors and Arabs upon Spanish pottery and also the origin of Majolica ware is taken up under Spanish pottery. The pottery of England before the Norman period and after the Norman Conquest is discussed. The pottery of Central Europe is dealt with under the head of German pottery. Porcelain is discussed from 200 B.C. on through its introduction into Europe and up to the earliest imitations of porcelain in the sixteenth century.</jats:p>