We wanted to serve up some great content, so we’re dishing out some of Keramic Studio’s wonderful plate designs. Find all 20 volumes (save 1) in our digital library.
Japanese lantern flowers from Keramic Studio, v.18 (May 1916-Apr. 1917).
The impressive journal was founded by Adelaide Alsop-Robineau and Anna B. Leonard. Find out more about the journal here.
Here’s a “postereque placque” by artist Henrietta Barclay Paist, in Keramic Studio, March 1900.
The pioneering monthly ceramics magazine aimed towards ceramics artists and potters was founded by Adelaide Alsop-Robineau. Alsop-Robineau is arguably one of the most important figures in the American art pottery movement. Paist was no slouch, either, winning many awards for her work. She was an assistant editor and frequent contributor to Keramic Studio, too.
Our blog features a post on Adelaide Alsop-Robineau, if you want to read more.
Les faïences anciennes & modernes by Auguste Alexandre Mareschal (1874) is one of many books donated by Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt to form the library in the newly created Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, which is now the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Faience is a type of ceramics that include majolica and Delftware.
Want to know more about the Hewitt sisters? There’s a two part series on the history of the sisters who founded the first museum dedicated to decorative arts in the United States.
This book is part of a collection of public domain works in our digital library dedicated to hallmarks, factory marks, and other production marks on pottery, silverware, and porcelain.