Scottish Pottery
Details:
- Author(s) Fleming, J Arnold
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1973
- Pages 2nd ed; 299pp; illus
- Publisher EP Publishing
- Place Published Wakefield
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1923. Reprinted 1973 with a 'Preface' by Peter Walton [v-ix]. Has introductory chapters but for most part comprises very many profiles of Scottish pottery businesses structured by location or type of output: 'Glasgow'; 'Prestonpans and Portobello and other centres'; 'Bo'ness'; 'Fifeshire and northern'; 'Western - Greenock'; 'Salt-glazed stoneware (Bristol ware) potteries'; 'Scottish clays - tobacco pipes'; 'Notable Scotsmen connected with pottery' - James Watt; James Tassie; William Tassie; Alexander Chisholm; John Henning; W Murdoch; Sir George D M'Kenzie. Some writers make note of inaccuracies - see for example Gerard Quail, 'Millroad Street Pottery, Calton. The background. Thomas Wyse and his stoneware shop, 1799-1814', Scottish Industrial History, 18, 1996