Ceramics in America 2024 continues to publish new research on ceramics made, used, or collected in America. Articles in this issue include several on Thomas Commeraw, the free Black potter working in New York from about 1797 to 1819; a newly-discovered French porcelain figure that belonged to George Washington that descended in an African American family; new discoveries about porcelain figures of characters from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the long history of face vessels in America; how a baby squirrel inspired a collection of tin-glazed earthenware.
A. Brandt Zipp, Putting Thomas Commeraw Together Again: A Brief
Meditation on Two Decades of Research
Leslie M. Harris, New York City in the Era of Thomas Commeraw
Mark Shapiro, Making a Commeraw Jug
Chris Pickerell, The Early American Oyster Jar
Margi Hofer and Allison Robinson, Collecting Commeraw
Patricia F. Ferguson, Slave candlesticks: British patronage and racism in
the mid-18th century
Cassandra A. Good and Adam T. Erby, La Peinture: The Rediscovery of George
and Martha Washingtons Presidential Biscuit Porcelain Figures and their
Incredible Provenance
C. Wesley Cowan and Stephen C. Compton, A Rare Colored Republicing Club
Cooler
Robert Hunter, About Face Vessels
Jill Weitzman Fenichell, New Findings of Figural Porcelains that Feature
Characters from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin
Ronald W. Fuchs II, A Worcester Parian Figure of Little Eva Reading the
Bible to Uncle Tom
Leslie Bouterie and Angelika Kuettner, The Landing of Lafayette in
Williamsburg
Al Luckenbach, Squirrel Iconography on Early Delftware: The Genesis of a
Ceramic Collection
Editor Ronald Fuchs II consults on early American ceramics and resides in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
