Fwd from HISTARCH:

Colonial Williamsburg is presenting an important conference on stonewares
titled POTTERY WITH A PAST: a new look at Salt-Glazed Stoneware Collections,
Research, and Archaeology on March 18th through the 21st.  A number of
well-known English and American researchers are included in the speakers.  Here
is a sampling of the better know speakers:
 
 
 
David Gaimster             “The Holy Family at Meal and Other Stories: The
Stoneware Revolution in Medieval and Pre-Industrial World.”
 
 
 
Gerd Kessler                “The Westerwald Stoneware of the Renaissance and
the Baroque: Origin and Phases of its Development.”
 
 
 
Jonathan Horne            “John Dwight and His Contemporaries.”
 
 
 
David Barker                “Every Sherd Tells a Story – An Archaeological
Perspective on Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware.”
 
 
 
Diana Edwards “Dry-bodied Stoneware for America: Is there Evidence?”
 
 
 
Miranda F. Goodby            “Barley Corn & Basketwork, Gadroon & Mosaik” :
Press-Moulding and Slip-casting in mid-18th-century England.”
 
 
 
Meredith M. Poole            “Picking up the Pieces: An Archaeological
Perspective on Stoneware from two Williamsburg Households.”
 
 
 
Robert Hunter              “The Birth of America’s Stone(ware) Age: William
Rogers of Yorktown.”
 
 
 
William B. Liebeknecht            “New Jersey’s Role in 18th-century
American Stoneware Production.”
 
 
 
The conference has been organized by Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen
Hood.
 
 
 
For further information visit the Colonial Williamsburg web site
www.history.org/conted
 
Or write to:
 
 
 
Conferences, Forums and Workshops
 
P.O. Box 1776
 
Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-1776