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 notreprinted because of its rarity, but because it is an indispensablecompanion to the same author’s “Marks and Monograms on Pottery andPorcelain.”
As originally published in two volumes at 4 guineas, with the examplesreproduced by the Woodbury process, it was an inconvenient book forreference, the examples being separated from the text. In this editionthe illustrations are all printed in the letterpress, and are seen inconjunction with the history and description of the different potteries.
The book is not a bare reprint, but has been thoroughly edited, in manycases new or additional specimen pieces given, and the references madeto the latest edition of the “Marks and Monograms,” so that the book isof the utmost use for the present day.
This work was undertaken by Mr. H. M. Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A., and nopains have been spared to make it worthy to be in the hands of everycollector 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 pictorialsupplement to his book “Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain,”so likewise this work, “Handbook to Keramics,” which is an abridgededition of “The Keramic Gallery,” is intended to form a companion volumeof illustrations to “The Collector’s Handbook of Marks and Monograms onPottery and Porcelain.”
Whilst it has been found necessary on account of their size to omit someof the larger illustrations, which appear in the second edition of “TheKeramic Gallery,” care has been taken to give representations, as far aspossible, of each