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Author: Ivor Noel-hume
Publisher: Chipstone
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

7 reviews
Sales Rank: 284670

Media: Library Binding
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 10.4 x 1.9

ISBN: 158465161X
Dewey Decimal Number: 738.0941075
EAN: 9781584651611

Publication Date: October 1, 2001
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Overview Of British Household Pottery April 12, 2008
One of the better overviews of everyday household pottery I've come across. The author makes it like taking a lively personable tour of pieces from 2000 years ago to the present. Great ideas for potters and a nice presentation for pottery lovers as well

4 out of 5 stars

If These Pots Could Talk February 8, 2008
This is the largest, heaviest book I own. Really! I thought it would take years to get through, but the pages are quite thick, and it's well-written. A fun book for the pottery enthusiast who is already familiar with the basics, it gives numerous insights into the detective work employed in the course of archeological research. Refreshingly personal on the part of the author. Each chapter is an appitizer that stimulates the reader's interest in another facet of (unfortunately) rarely encountered pottery. The charming cover adds to the book's appeal as a coffee-table selection, but make sure the table has sturdy legs!

4 out of 5 stars

An invaluable help February 23, 2007
Noel Hume compiled this wonderful treasury of ceramics mostly from his personal collection. This book is invaluable in my Colonial Archaeology class. Even if you are midly interested in ceramics, this beautifully illustrated book is an easy read, and very informative.

5 out of 5 stars

If These Pots Could Talk February 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a comprehensive review of British pottery and ceramics written by eminent retired archeologist of Colonial Williamsburg and writer Ivor Noel-Hume. It reviews British ceramics for a period covering the past 2000 years and is particularly interesting to Americans because most of the ceramics recovered in American colonial sites were of British origin or European origin associated with the British colonial trade and were therefore exported to the colonies. Noel-Hume is an excellent and entertaining writer and he make the book interesting with personal accounts of how he and his wife Audrey,also an eminent archeologist,collected or recovered many of the examples shown. I would recomend this book to anyone interested archeaology or pottery/ceramics.

5 out of 5 stars

WONDERFUL BOOK! INFORMATIVE! DETAILED! GREAT PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS! September 7, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

When I look for a good book on pottery and Porcelain, I always look for something that will not "lull me to sleep" with drole monotone type sentences, but rather something that presents not only important details, facts and descriptions but does so in a interesting manner. With "If these Pots Could Talk" you get everything! From enjoyable "in the field stories" to truly illuminating facts that ever increases ones appreciation of the "pots and dishes" that so many are hasty to overlook once they hear that they hold no "intristic market value".
This book makes the studying of pottery and porcelain not only interesting but also something that is rarely heard of in the "sophisticated collecting field" FUN!

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