Chipstone Foundation

The mission of The Chipstone Foundation is to promote and enhance appreciation and knowledge of American material culture (emphasising the decorative arts) by scholars, students and the general public.

American Furniture 2013 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9780982772232
Pub Date: 27 Mar 2014
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 384 illus.
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.
Ceramics in America 2013 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9780982772225
Pub Date: 06 Mar 2014
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 301 illus.
Description:
A diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research of interest to ceramics scholarsNow in its thirteenth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramics scholarship in the American context and is intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians, and contemporary potters.“This year’s Ceramics in America is on the cutting edge of Southern material-culture scholarship and ceramics studies. It weaves the sherds of pots past with surviving vessels and documentary evidence to enrich our understanding of the field.
American Furniture 2012 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9780982772218
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2013
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 190 illus.
American Furniture 2011 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780976734499
Pub Date: 12 Apr 2012
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 273 illus.
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.

Ceramics in America 2011

Format: Hardback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780976734482
Pub Date: 08 Dec 2011
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 658 illus. (620 colour)
Description:
Now in its eleventh year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context.Included in 2011 edition:• The Chinese Scholar Pattern: Style, Merchant Identity, and the English Imagination-Sarah Fayen Scarlett• Digging Up Salem's Golden Age: Ceramic Use among the Merchant Class-George Schwartz• Ceramic Treasures among Seventeenth-Century Trash: A 1660s Cellar Deposit-Al Luckenbach and John E. Kille• The Stoneware Years of the Thompson Potters of Morgantown, West Virginia, 1854-1890-Richard Duez and Don Horvath with Brenda Hornsby Heindl• Cap-Hole Oyster Jars: A Racial Message In The Mud; or Shipping Crassostrea Virginica-Ivor Noël Hume• Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei's Conceptual Ceramics-Garth ClarkPlus ten New Discoveries and six new book reviews

American Furniture 2010

Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780976734475
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2011
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 243 illus. (209 colour)
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.

American Furniture 2009

Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9780976734451
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2010
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 243 illus. (209 colour). End-paper illus.
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.
Ceramics in America 2009 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9780976734444
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2010
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 374 illus. (356 colour). End-paper illus.
Description:
Now in its ninth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context. The 2009 volume presents new research related to the rich and varied earthenware production in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Moravian settlements of Bethabara and Salem, North Carolina. Setting a new standard for American ceramic studies, this transdisciplinary effort draws on archaeology, art history, social history, religion, ceramic technology, and many other areas of inquiry resulting in a substantively revised history of this much-admired North Carolina pottery tradition.
American Furniture 2008 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9780976734437
Pub Date: 14 Jan 2009
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 170 illus. (135 colour). End-paper illus.
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.
Ceramics in America 2008 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 404
ISBN: 9780976734420
Pub Date: 14 Jan 2009
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 415 illus. (400 colour). End-paper illus.
Description:
Now in its eight year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramics scholarship in the American context and is intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians, and contemporary potters. This volume of Ceramics in America features articles on eighteenth-century New York and New Jersey salt-glazed stoneware, a fascinating ceramic cargo from the "Blue China" wreck, nineteenth-century ceramic consumption patterns in the Anglo-American merchant trade, and commemorative ceramics made for the 1907, 1957, and 2007 anniversaries of the founding off Jamestown, Virginia. Included are many additional articles detailing important new discoveries in the ceramic field and scholarly reviews of recently published ceramic books.
Ceramics in America 2007 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780976734406
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2007
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 350 colour illus. End-paper illus.
Description:
For the first time, color photographs of the known nineteen surviving objects from this important American porcelain factory are presented.Accompanying essays provide the historical context for the rise and fall of the factory along with exploration of porcelain technology and classification of parallel British porcelain. Important new evidence is presented for an even earlier porcelain manufactory near Charleston, South Carolina that of emigrant Staffordshire potter John Bartlam.
Ceramics in America 2006 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9780972435376
Pub Date: 08 Oct 2006
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 350 illus. End-paper illus.
Description:
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in ceramics is at an all-time high. As a vehicle for much-needed synthesis, Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters, every issue features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews for this diverse audience.
Ceramics in America 2005 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9780972435352
Pub Date: 12 Jan 2006
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 470 illus.(429 colour). 3 tables. End-paper illus.
Description:
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in ceramics is at an all-time high. As a vehicle for much-needed synthesis, Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters, every issue features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews for this diverse audience.
American Furniture 2004 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9780972435345
Pub Date: 20 Jan 2005
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 308 illus. (230 colour). 10 fig. Table. End-paper
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.
Ceramics in America 2004 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9780972435338
Pub Date: 04 Nov 2004
Series: Ceramics in America Annual
Illustrations: 392 colour illus. 15 colour tables. End-paper illu
Description:
The 2004 issue features many important articles including the first color publication of America's earliest stoneware factory-The Poor Potter of Yorktown. In addition, other articles feature previously unpublished information about several important American Salt-glazed stoneware potters. The redware products of Morgantown West Virginia are presented along with information about English porcelain, Maryland tobacco pipes, and a wonderful essay about Bernard Leach's travels in America.
American Furniture 2003 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780972435321
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2003
Series: American Furniture Annual
Illustrations: 261 colour illus. End-paper illus.
Description:
Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.