The Complete Work from which this Handbook is extracted
The Keramic Gallery
BY
WILLIAM CHAFFERS
Containing several hundred illustrations, some in colour, of rare,
curious, and choice examples of Pottery and Porcelain from the
earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND EDITED BY
H. M. CUNDALL, I.S.O., F.S.A.
Royal 8vo, cloth extra, top edge gilt, to range with the same author’s
“Marks and Monograms on Pottery”
This important book, which was long out of print and scarce, is not reprinted because of its rarity, but because it is an indispensable companion to the same author’s “Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain.”
As originally published in two volumes at 4 guineas, with the examples reproduced by the Woodbury process, it was an inconvenient book for reference, the examples being separated from the text. In this edition the illustrations are all printed in the letterpress, and are seen in conjunction with the history and description of the different potteries.
The book is not a bare reprint, but has been thoroughly edited, in many cases new or additional specimen pieces given, and the references made to the latest edition of the “Marks and Monograms,” so that the book is of the utmost use for the present day.
This work was undertaken by Mr. H. M. Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A., and no pains have been spared to make it worthy to be in the hands of every collector as well as every library.
HANDBOOK TO KERAMICS
Chelsea Statuette, “Melpomene”
THE COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK
TO
Keramics
Of the Renaissance and Modern Periods
SELECTED FROM HIS LARGER WORK, ENTITLED
“The Keramic Gallery”
WITH 350 ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
WILLIAM CHAFFERS
AUTHOR OF “MARKS AND MONOGRAMS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN”
“HALL MARKS ON GOLD AND SILVER PLATE,” ETC. ETC.
LONDON
GIBBINGS AND COMPANY, LIMITED
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1909
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
PREFACE
As “The Keramic Gallery” by the late William Chaffers forms a pictorial supplement to his book “Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain,” so likewise this work, “Handbook to Keramics,” which is an abridged edition of “The Keramic Gallery,” is intended to form a companion volume of illustrations to “The Collector’s Handbook of Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain.”
Whilst it has been found necessary on account of their size to omit some of the larger illustrations, which appear in the second edition of “The Keramic Gallery,” care
Brief accounts, extracted from the larger volume, of the various manufactories are also given, with a view to help in establishing the period to which any specimen may belong.
It is hoped that this little work may prove to be of assistance to the Collector in identifying those specimens of Keramics bearing no marks, which may, from time to time, be brought under his notice.
H. M. C.
CONTENTS
PAGE MAIOLICA— Italy 1 Spain 41 CONTINENTAL FAYENCE— France 50 Germany 84 Holland and Luxemburg 100 Russia and Sweden 107 CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN— 110 Italy 112 Spain 127 Germany 130 Austria