The Herculaneum Pottery: Liverpool's Forgotten Glory

by Peter Hyland

The emergence of Herculaneum pottery in early nineteenth-century Liverpool marked a pivotal moment in the clay arts. This book provides a comprehensive history of Herculaneum pottery--still highly sought after in North America--and its rapid rise to international prominence. Renowned Liverpool porcelain collector Peter Hyland examines the pottery's relatively brief heyday from about 1800 to 1820, when the company surpassed all other potteries in Britain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853239797
• ISBN13: 9780853239796
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.7"