Site Index

Index to available Chipstone publication articles currently on our website Click here for available exhibits	American Furniture 1993 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite Protective Covers for Furniture and Its Contents Linda Baumgarten Origins of the Rococo Style in New York Furniture and Interior Architecture Luke Beckerdite The Stock-in-Trade of John Hancock and Company David H. Conradsen Scandinavian Modern Furniture in the Arts and Crafts Period: The Collaboration of the Greenes and the Halls Edward S. Cooke, Jr. Design Transmission in Vernacular Seating Furniture: The Influence of Philadelphia and Baltimore Styles on Chairmaking from the Chesapeake Bay to the "West" Nancy Goyne Evans American or English Furniture? Some Choices in the 1760s Graham Hood The Conservator as Curator: Combining Scientific Analysis and Traditional Connoisseurship Gregory Landrey Roman Gusto in New England: An Eighteenth-Century Boston Furniture Designer and His Shop Alan Miller Mid-Atlantic Easy Chairs, 1770-1850: Old Questions and New Evidence Robert F. Trent A Catalogue of American Easy Chairs Mark Anderson and Robert F. Trent The Wendell Family Furniture at Strawbery Banke Museum Gerald W. R. Ward and Karin E. Cullity Book Reviews Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State, Clement E. Conger and Mary K. Itsell; review by Elizabeth Pitzer Gusler American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament, Morrison H. Heckscher and Leslie Greene Bowman; review by Ronald L. Hurst The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg: A Cultural Study, Graham Hood; review by Luke Beckerdite A Review Article American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800, Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert T. Vincent; review by Nell Duff Kamil Bibliography of Works on American Furniture Published in 1991 and 1992 Gerald W. R. Ward
	American Furniture 1994 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Becerdite Identifying and Understanding Repairs and Structural Problems in Windsor Furniture Nancy Goyne Evans Architect-Designed Furniture in Eighteenth-Century Virginia: The Work of William Buckland and William Bernard Sears Luke Beckerdite Leon Marcotte: Cabinetmaker and Interior Decorator Nina GrayJohn Cogswell and Boston Bombé Furniture: Thirty-Five Years of Revolution in Politics and Design Robert Mussey and Anne Rogers Haley Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves Peter M. Kenny Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style Robert A. Leath A Masonic Master’s Chair Revealed Susan Buck English Furniture Pattern Books in Eighteenth-Century America Morrison H. Heckscher The Work of Clotworthy Stephenson, William Hodgson and Henry Ingle in Richmond, Virginia, 1787–1806 Sumpter T. Priddy III and Martha C. Vick Book Reviews Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, organized and edited by Brock Jobe; review by David L. Barquist American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, David L. Barquist; review by John Hays Clock Making in New England, 1725–1825: An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection, Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, edited by Caroline F. Sloat; review by Thomas S. Michie New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees, Sheila Connor; review by Gerald W. R. Ward Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	American Furniture 1995 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite Regional Furniture/Regional Life William N. Hosley Furniture as Social History: Gender, Property, and Memory in the Decorative Arts Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Diversity and Regionalism in Rural New England Furniture Philip Zea The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1750-1800 Edward S. Cooke Jr. Regions and the Study of Material Culture: Explorations along the Connecticut River Kevin M. Sweeney Definition and Diaspora of Regional Style: The Worcester County Model Donna K. Baron Hidden in Plain Sight: Disappearance and Material Life in Colonial New York Neil D. Kamil Book Reviews Tools: Working Wood in Eighteenth-Century America, James M. Gaynor and Nancy L. Hagedorn; review by Barbara McLean Ward Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Katherine S. Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Simon Jervis, Hans Ottomeyer, Mark Bascou, Ann Claggett Wood, and Sophia Riefstahl; review by Edward S. Cooke Jr. Drama in Design: The Life and Craft of Charles Rohlfs, Michael L. James; review by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio Living in Style: Fine Furniture in Victorian Quebec, edited by John R. Porter; review by Kenneth L. Ames The Complete Book of Shaker Furniture, Timothy D. Rieman and Jean M. Burks; review by Robert P. Emlen The Dunlap Cabinetmakers: A Tradition in Craftsmanship, Philip Zea and Donald Dunlap, with measured drawings by John Nelson; review by Philip D. Zimmerman Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	American Furniture 1996 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Reform Movement in Furniture Design: The J. Matthew Meier and Ernest Hagen Commission of 1882–1885 Milo M. Naeve Frog Backs and Turkey Legs: The Nomenclature of Vernacular Seating Furniture, 1740–1850 Nancy Goyne Evans Designs for Philadelphia Carvers Richard H. Randall, Jr. Is It Phyfe? Deborah Dependahl Waters Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander The Rococo, the Grotto, and the Philadelphia High Chest Jonathan Prown and Richard Miller Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810–1840 Maurie D. McInnis and Robert A. Leath Boston and New York Leather Chairs: A Reappraisal Roger Gonzales and Daniel Putnam Brown, Jr. Admitted into the Mysteries: The Benjamin Bucktrout Masonic Master’s Chair F. Carey Howlett Immigrant Carvers and the Development of the Rococo Style in New York, 1750–1770 Luke Beckerdite The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller Book Reviews American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640–1940, William C. Ketchum, Jr., and the Museum of American Folk Art; review by Bert Denker Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker, Mary E. Lyons; review by Ted Landsmark Material Culture of the American Freemasons, John D. Hamilton; review by William D. Moore The Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700–1840, John A. Fleming; review by Francis J. Puig “The Best the Country Affords”: Vermont Furniture, 1765–1850, Kenneth Joel Zogry, and Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist, Charles A. Robinson, with an introduction by Philip Zea; review by Edwin A. Churchill
	American Furniture 1997 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite A “Preponderance of Pineapples”: The Problem of Southern Furniture Jonathan Prown Dutch Trade and Its Influence on Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Furniture Robert A. Leath The Convergence and Divergence of Three Stylistic Traditions in Charleston Neoclassical Case Furniture, 1785–1800 John Bivins The Holmes-Edwards Library Bookcase and the Origins of the German School in Pre-Revolutionary Charleston J. Thomas Savage Crossroads of Culture: Eighteenth-Century Furniture from Western Maryland Sumpter Priddy III and Joan K. Quinn Irish Influences on Cabinetmaking in Virginia’s Rappahannock River Basin Ronald L. Hurst Religion, Artisanry, and Cultural Identity: The Huguenot Experience in South Carolina, 1680–1725 Luke Beckerdite The Furniture of Winchester, Virginia Wallace Gusler Leather Bottoms, Satin Haircloth, and Spanish Beard: Conserving Virginia Upholstered Seating Furniture Leroy Graves and F. Carey Howlett Adaptation and Reinterpretation: The Transfer of Furniture Styles from Philadelphia to Winchester to Tennessee Anne S. McPherson Staples for Genteel Living: The Importation of London Household Furnishings into Charleston During the 1780s Elizabeth A. Fleming Book Reviews American Windsor Chairs, Nancy Goyne Evans; review by Jonathan Prown American Furniture of the 18th Century: History,Technique, Structure, Jeffrey P. Greene; review by Myrna Kaye Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century, Pat Kirkham; review by Glenn Adamson and Sarah Rich Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection, Donald L. Fennimore; review by David F. Wood Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century, Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert, eds.; review by Robert F. Trent American Case Furniture, 1680–1840: Selections from the DAR Museum Collection, Patrick Sheary; review by Gerald W. R. Ward Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.; review by Kevin M. Sweeney
	American Furniture 1998 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820–1850 Charles L. Venable Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered Philip D. Zimmerman The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America Nancy Goyne Evans Sophistication in Rural Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard Brock Jobe and Clark Pearce A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter’s Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair Peter Follansbee Notes about New “Tinkham” Chairs Robert F. Trent and Karin Goldstein Book Reviews The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood; review by Milo M. Naeve Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York, Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter, and Ulrich Leben; review by Wendy A. Cooper New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky; review by Wallace B. Gusler The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief, John T. Kirk; review by Scott T. Swank Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530–1840, Geoffrey Beard; review by Jeffrey H. Munger Southern Furniture, 1680–1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown; review by Robert A. Leath Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	American Furniture 1999 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Jonathan Prown The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables Patricia E. Kane Eighteenth-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island Mack Headley Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island Nancy Goyne Evans Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmakers John Bivins The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr. Martha H. Willoughby A Different Rhode Island Block-and-Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture Robert F. Trent “America’s Contribution to Craftsmanship”: The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture Gerald W. R. Ward The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport Philip Zea Book Reviews Useful Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750–1850, Philip Zea; review by Margaretta M. Lovell The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies, John Kassay; review by Jean M. Burks Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America’s Furniture City, Christian G. Carron, with contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Jeffrey D. Kleiman, and Joel Lefever; review by Barry R. Harwood There’s a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye; review by Philip D. Zimmerman The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz; review by Philip D. Zimmerman Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, edited by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio; review by Heidi Nasstrom Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	American Furniture 2000 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite The Early Furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend Luke Beckerdite “The True Antiques of Tomorrow”: Furniture by the Potthast Brothers of Baltimore, 1892–1975 Catherine Rogers Arthur The Genesis of Neoclassical Style in Baltimore Furniture Sumpter Priddy III, J. Michael Flanigan, and Gregory R. Weidman A New Suspect: Baltimore Cabinetmaker Edward Priestley Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley New Insights on John Cadwalader’s Commode-Seat Side Chairs Leroy Graves and Luke Beckerdite Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shops and Their Customers Martha H. Willoughby Cultural Negotiations: A Study of the New Mexican Caja Elizabeth A. Fleming Book Reviews The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski; review by Neville Thompson Art & Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825–1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, Donald C. Peirce; review by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680–1758, Jack Lindsey, with essays by Richard S. Dunn, Edward C. Carter II, and Richard Saunders; review by Philip D. Zimmerman History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition, John Morley; review by Gerald W. R. Ward Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	American Furniture 2001 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a Northern Essex County, Massachusetts, Shop Robert F. Trent, Peter Follansbee, and Alan Miller When Good Cabinetmakers Made Bad Furniture: The Career and Work of David Evans Eleanore P. Gadsden Early New York Turned Chairs: A Stoelendraaier’s Conceit Erik Gronning The Lisle Desk-and-Bookcase: A Rhode Island Icon Brock Jobe A Salem Cabinetmakers’ Price Book Dean Thomas Lahikainen Two Early Eighteenth-Century Schränke: Rare Survivals of the German Joiner’s Art in the Hudson River Valley Peter M. Kenny Book Reviews The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families, Betty C. Monkman; review by Elisabeth D. Garrett Early American Decorative Arts, 1620–1860: A Handbook for Interpreters, Rosemary Troy Krill with Pauline K. Eversmann; review by Gilian Ford Shallcross Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production, Peter Benes, editor; review by Anne Woodhouse American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction, and Quality, John T. Kirk; review by Ted Landsmark
	Ceramics in America 2001 Editorial Statement Robert Hunter Introduction Robert Hunter Potsherds and Pragmatism: One Collector’s Perspective Ivor Noël Hume Magical, Mythical, Practical, and Sublime: The Meanings and Uses of Ceramics in America Ann Smart Martin European Ceramics in the New World: The Jamestown Example Beverly Straube “The Usual Classes of Useful Articles”: Staffordshire Ceramics Reconsidered David Barker Dots, Dashes, and Squiggles: Early English Slipware Technology Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization Don Carpentier and Jonathan Rickard How Creamware Got the Blues: The Origins of China Glaze and Pearlware George L. Miller and Robert Hunter American Queensware—The Louisville Experience, 1829–1837 Diana and J. Garrison Stradling An Adventure with Early English Pottery Troy D. Chappell New Discoveries Introduction Merry Abbitt Outlaw Journey of Discovery: A Retrospective Charlotte Wilcoxen The Double Dish Dilemma Jacqueline Pearce and Beverly Straube A Rediscovery at The New-York Historical Society Margaret K. Hofer Seventeenth-Century Donyatt Pottery in the Chesapeake Taft Kiser All in the Family: A Staffordshire Soup Plate and the American Market Robert Hunter and George L. Miller Industrial Pottery in the Old Edgefield District Carl Steen A Spectacular Find at the Joseph Gregory Baynham Pottery Site Mark M. Newell Enoch Wood Ceramics Excavated in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent Catherine Banks A Warner House Search... Joyce Geary Volk And the Find! Louise Richardson Eighteenth-Century Stoneware Kiln of William Richards Found on the Lamberton Waterfront, Trenton, New Jersey Richard Hunter
	American Furniture 2002 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Beckerdite Survival of the Fittest: The Lloyd Family’s Furniture Legacy Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley Furniture Fakes from the Chipstone Collection Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller Pennsylvania Clouded Limestone: Its Quarrying, Processing, and Use in the Stone Cutting, Furniture, and Architectural Trades R. Curt Chinnici Manuscripts, Marks, and Material Culture: Sources for Understanding the Joiner’s Trade in Seventeenth-Century America Peter Follansbee The Claypoole Family Joiners of Philadelphia: Their Legacy and the Context of Their Work Andrew Brunk The Politics of the Caned Chair Glenn Adamson The Quiet Canon: Tradition and Exclusion in American Furniture Scholarship Jonathan Prown and Katherine Hemple Prown An Early Cupboard Fragment from the Harvard College Joinery Tradition Robert F. Trent and Michael Podmaniczky Book Reviews The Furniture of Sam Maloof, Jeremy Adamson; Made In Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett, Ursula Ilse-Neumann, et al.; review by Glenn Adamson Encyclopedia of Furniture Materials, Trades and Techniques, Clive Edwards; One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Witold Rybczynski; review by Gerald W.R. Ward Willard’s Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900, Paul J. Foley; review by David Wood and Robert C. Cheney An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum, Wendy A. Cooper; review by Kenneth L. Ames Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	Ceramics in America 2002 Introduction Robert Hunter A Pot Potpourri Ivor Noël Hume Scratched in Clay: Seventeenth-Century North Devon Slipware at Jamestown, Virginia Merry Abbitt Outlaw Antique Porcelain 101: A Primer on the Chemical Analysis and Interpretation of Eighteenth-Century British Wares J. Victor Owen Parian Porcelain Statuary: American Sculptors and 62 the Introduction of Art in American Ceramics Ellen Paul Denker “And Freedom To The Slave”: Antislavery Ceramics, 1787–1865 Sam Margolin “The Very Man for the Hour”: The Toussaint L’Ouverture Portrait Pitcher Jonathan Prown, Glenn Adamson, Katherine Hemple Prown, and Robert Hunter Ceramics from the Edward Rumney/Stephen West Tavern, London Town, Maryland, Circa 1725 Al Luckenbach Richard Schalck, Stoneware Potter of Marblehead, Massachusetts Robert F. Trent Brown Mugs and Jugs: A Personal Foray into the Field of Collecting James Glenn New Discoveries Introduction Merry Abbitt Outlaw La Vega Cerámica Indo-Hispano—An Early Sixteenth-Century 195 Caribbean Colono-ware Kathleen Deagan A Peacock’s Flight . . . Across 100 Years 199 Beverly A. Straube Terra Sigillata From a Seventeenth-Century Settlement in Newfoundland James A. Tuck and Barry Gaulton The Seventeenth-Century “Lloyd Plate” from the Broadneck Site in Maryland Al Luckenbach A Collection of Curious “Canns” Merry Abbitt Outlaw A Cache of Eighteenth-Century Flowerpots in Williamsburg William Pittman and Robert Hunter The American Foundation of the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, 1745–1784 Stephen E. Patrick Two Eighteenth-Century Vanity Plates Joyce Hanes American Export Wares Excavated in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent Jonathan Goodwin Archaeology at the United States Pottery Company Site in Bennington, Vermont Catherine Zusy The Search Continues: New Insights into Old EdgeWeld Folk Potters Mark M. Newell Bombs Away!: Unearthing a Cache of Terra Cotta Practice Bombs from the First World War Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied Book Reviews Amy C. Earls Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Moira Vincentelli; review by Rita P. Wright Maiolica in the North: The Archaeology of Tin-Glazed Earthenware in North-West Europe c. 1500–1600, David Gaimster (editor); review by Ivor Noël Hume The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory: Excavations at 108-116 Narrow Street, London, 1990, Kieron Tyler and Roy Stephenson, with J.Victor Owen and Christopher Phillpotts; review by Robert Hunter Adams Ceramics: Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 1779–1998, David A. Furniss, J. Richard Wagner, and Judith Wagner; review by Teresita Majewski Country Pottery: Traditional Earthenware of Britain, Andrew McGarva; review by Greg Shooner Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning,Regina Lee Blaszczyk; review by Amy C. Earls Checklist of Articles, Books, and Electronic Resources on Ceramics in America Published 1998–2001 Compiled by Amy C. Earls
	American Furniture 2003 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Introduction Jonathan Prown Early Carving in the South Carolina Low Country: The Career and Work of Henry Burnett John Bivins, Jr. Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Bedsteads Nancy Goyne Evans Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism Sarah Neale Fayen Provenance, Patronage, and Perception: The Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture Lance Humphries The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture Edward S. Cooke, Jr. From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom, Jr., Artisan of the New Republic Peter M. Kenny Book Reviews English Furniture, 1660–1714: From Charles II to Queen Anne, Adam Bowett; review by Glenn Adamson Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood, Thomas Moser, with Brad Lemley; review by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. The Furniture of Charleston, 1680–1820, Bradford L. Rauschenberg and John Bivins, Jr.; review by Robert A. Leath Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W. R. Ward
	Ceramics in America 2003 Introduction Robert Hunter "Our Home in the West": Staffordshire Potters and Their Emigration to America in the 1840s Miranda Goodby Highlights in the Development of the Rockingham and Yellow Ware Industry in the United States – A Brief Review with Representative Examples Arthur F. Goldberg In the Philadelphia Style: the Pottery of Henry Piercy Barbara H. Magid and Bernard K. Means Swirls and Whirls: English Agateware Technology Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter The Talbot Hotel Pit Group Peter Williams Through the Lookinge Glasse: or, the Chamber Pot as a Mirror of Its Time Ivor Noël Hume Taken for Granite: Terracotta Gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied Meditations on a Chinese Musician Graham Hood "Informed Conjecture": Collecting Long Island Redware Anthony W. Butera, Jr. New Discoveries Introduction Merry Abbitt Outlaw A Coxon Waster Deposit of the Mid-1860s, Sampled in Trenton, New Jersey William B. Liebeknecht, Rebecca White, and Richard W. Hunter Excavations on the Site of the Lewis Pottery Complex, Buckley, North Wales, United Kingdom Leigh J. Dodd A Maryland Grouping of Bow and Derby Figures of the 1760s Stephen E. Patrick Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia: A Remarkable Slipware Assemblage David G. Orr The Two Faces of Anthony Baecher Christopher T. Espenshade The Richards Face – Shades of An Eighteenth-Century American Bellarmine William B. Liebeknecht and Richard W. Hunter The Prodigal Son Returns to Jamestown Beverly A. Straube Backcountry Sophistication: Anthropomorphic Elements from a Piedmont North Carolina Kiln Alain C. Outlaw Toy Story L. Madison Washburn Molded Malevolence: Instrumental Symbolism Rendered in Clay Christopher C. Fennell Making His MARK Mark M. Newell Book Reviews An Illustrated Guide to Minton Printed Pottery, 1796–1836, Geoffrey H. Priestman; review by Robert Copeland The Potter’s Art, Henry Glassie; review by Ellen Denker China and Glass in America, 1880–1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray, Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, and Stephen G. Harrison; review by Amy C. Earls Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600–1800, Amanda E. Lange; review by Louise P. Richardson Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture, and Commerce, 1880–1913, Nancy E. Owen; review by Cynthia Brandimarte Porcelain from the "Vung Tau" Wreck: The Hallstrom Excavation, Christiaan J. A. Jörg and Michael Flecker; review by Linda R. Shulsky Checklist of Articles and Books on Ceramics in America Published 1998–2002 Amy C. Earls
	American Furniture 2004 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite A Table’s Tale: Craft, Art, and Opportunity in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller The Account Book of Benjamin Baker Dennis Andrew Carr High Craft along the Mohawk: Early Woodwork from the Albany Area of New York Robert F. Trent, Alan Miller, Glenn Adamson, and Harry Mack Truax II John Singleton Copley’s Furniture and the Art of Invention Jonathan Prown Southern Sophistication on the Early Frontier:The Inlaid Furniture of Washington County, Ohio,1788–1825 Andrew Richmond Opulence Abroad: Honoré Lannuier’s Gilded Furniture in Trinidad de Cuba Peter M. Kenny Book Reviews Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors, Jennifer L. Howe, ed.; review by Kenneth L. Ames Nature, Form, and Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima, Mira Nakashima; review by Thomas A. Denenberg Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W.R. Ward
	Ceramics in America 2004 Introduction Robert Hunter The Swan Cove Kiln: Chesapeake Tobacco Pipe Production, Circa 1650–1669 Al Luckenbach Archaeology of a Colonial Pottery Factory: The Kilns and Ceramics of the "Poor Potter" of Yorktown Norman F. Barka Yorktown’s "Poor Potter": A Man Wise Beyond Discretion Martha W. McCartney and Edward Ayres An "A-Marked" Porcelain Covered Bowl, Cherokee Clay, and Colonial America’s Contribution to the English Porcelain Industry W. Ross Ramsay, Judith A. Hansen, and E. Gael Ramsay The Little Engine That Could: Adaptation of the Engine-Turning Lathe in the Pottery Industry Jonathan Rickard and Donald Carpentier The Potters and Pottery of Morgan’s Town, Virginia: The Earthenware Years, Circa 1796–1854 Don Horvath and Richard Duez Bernard Leach in America Emmanuel Cooper Henry Remmey & Son, Late of New York: A Rediscovery of a Master Potter’s Lost Years Luke Zipp The Remarkable Stoneware of George N. Fulton, Circa 1856–1894 Kurt C. Russ A-Hunting We Will Go! from Vauxhall to Lambeth, 1700–1956 Ivor Noël Hume New Discoveries Introduction Merry Abbitt Outlaw A New Look at Old Stoneware: The Pottery of Tildon Easton Barbara H. Magid James Miller, Lost Potter of Alexandria, Virginia Brandt Zipp and Mark Zipp Relatedness and Fluidity among Stoneware Potters of Washington County, Virginia Christopher T. Espenshade Jar or Jug? A Handled Stoneware Storage Vessel from the Delaware Valley William B. Liebeknecht William Pecker Jar John Kille Excavations at the Minton Factory: Shedding New Light on Nineteenth-Century Potery Kilns Jonathan Goodwin If This Pot Could Sing Al Luckenbach "This I Mad for Yov and Moom" Robert Werowinski New Acquisitions at Chipstone Robert Hunter A Pernicious In?uence? Japanese Water Drop Ware Mary C. Beaudry An Investigation into "Ghosts" and Gilding on a Kangxi Porcelain Pot in the J. Paul Getty Museum Lisa Ellis Sherds of Chinese Porcelain Found at Old Mobile Linda R. Shulsky The John Dortch Site: Anglo Elegance on the Spanish Louisiana Frontier Sara A. Hahn
	American Furniture 2005 Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Early Rhode Island Turning Erik Kyle Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr Mannerism in Early American Furniture: Connoisseurship, Intention, and Theatricality Glenn Adamson Structure, Style, and Evolution: The Sack-Back Windsor Armchair David R. Pesuit New York Card Tables, 1800–1825 Philip D. Zimmerman Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White III Book Reviews Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750–1800, Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman, with Robert Lionetti et al.; review by William Hosley John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, Morrison H. Heckscher, with the assistance of Lori Zabar; review by Gerald W.R. Ward The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Continuity in Colonial New England, Robert Tarule; review by Barbara McLean Ward The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour, Robert D. Mussey Jr.; review by Philip Zea Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517–1751, Neil Kamil; review by Robert F. Trent Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography Gerald W.R. Ward