The Art of German Stoneware: From the Charles W. Nichols Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

by Jack Hinton

Beautiful and eminently useful, stonewares produced in the German-speaking lands from the Middle Ages onward were highly valued for their durability and suitability for a range of domestic and social uses. Widely traded throughout Europe, they were also among the first European ceramics to reach colonial North America. During the Renaissance the addition of brilliant salt glazes--s well as relief imagery that communicated with the user--raised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300179782
• ISBN13: 9780300179781
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 11.0"