Information or research assistance regarding Continental
European Ceramics is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution.
The following information has been prepared to assist those interested
in this topic.
General European
Bagdade, Susan D. and Al Bagdade. Warman's English & Continental
Pottery & Porcelain. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1998.
Boger, Louise Ade. The Dictionary of World Pottery and Porcelain.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
Caiger-Smith, Alan. Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic
World. London: Faber and Faber, 1973.
Campbell Museum. The Campbell Museum Collection. 2d ed., rev.
and enl. Camden, New Jersey, 1972.
Casey, Elizabeth Temple. The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European
Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century. Providence: Rhode Island
School of Design, 1965.
Chaffers, Wm. Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain. 15th
rev. ed. Vol 1, European and Oriental Selection, edited by Frederick
Litchfield and R.L. Hobson. New York: Dover Publications, 1965.
Charles, Rollo. Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century.
Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1964.
Charleston, Robert J. Meissen and Other European Porcelain.
London: The James A. de Rothschild Collection. London: National Trust,
1971.
_____.(Ed.)World Ceramics: an Illustrated History. Secaucus,
NJ: Chartwell Books, 1968.
Cohen, David Harris and Catherine Hess. Looking at European Ceramics:
a Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum in
association with British Museum Press, 1993.
Coutts, Howard. The Art of Ceramics: European Ceramic Design 1500-1830.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Coutts, Howard and Watson, F.J. Wrightsman Collection, Volume 4.
Porcelain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970.
Ducret, Siegfried. Unknown Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century.
Frankfurt am Main: L. Woeller, 1956.
Fay-Hallé, Antoinette and Barbara Mundt. Porcelain of the Nineteenth
Century. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.
Gaimster, David and Mark Redknap, ed. Everyday and Exotic Pottery
from Europe, c. 650-1900: Studies in Honour of John G. Hurst. Oxford:
Oxbow Books, 1992.
Godden, Geoffrey A. The Concise Guide to European Porcelain.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1996.
Godden, Geoffrey A. Godden's Guide to European Porcelain. New
York; London: Cross River Press, 1994.
Grotesqueries: Form, Fantasy and Function in 19th Century European
Ceramics: the Collection of Brooke Hayward Duchin. New Orleans:
New Orleans Museum of Art, 1997.
Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, Faience
and Enamel in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1956.
Haggar, Reginald G. The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery
and Porcelain. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1968.
Hannover, Emil. Pottery and Porcelain: Europe and the Near East
Earthenware and Stoneware. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
Hawes, Vivian S., Christina S. Corsiglia, and members of the staff
of the Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture. The
Rita & Frits Markus Collection of European Ceramics & Enamels.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984.
Hildyard, R. J. C. European Ceramics. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Honey, William B. European Ceramic Art from the End of the Middle
Ages to about 1815. London: Faber and Faber, 1963. (2d ed.; original
1952).
Husfloen, Kyle. Antique Trader Books American & European Art
Pottery: Price Guide. Dubuque, IA: Antique Trade Books, 1995.
Imber, Diana. Collecting European Delft and Faience. New York:
Praeger Publishers, 1968.
Litchfield, Frederick. Pottery and Porcelain. A Guide to Collectors.
6th edition, revised by Frank Tilley. New York: M. Barrows, 1953.
Meister, Peter Wilhelm and Horst Reber. European Porcelain of the
18th Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Morley-Fletcher, Hugo. Early European Porcelain & Faience: as
Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger. London: Christie, Manson,
& Woods Ltd., 1993.
_____ and Roger McIlroy. Christie's Pictorial History of European
Pottery. Oxford: Phaidon: Christie's, 1984.
Penkala, Maria. European Porcelain. Rutland, VT: Charles E.
Tuttle Co., Inc., 1968.
_____. European Pottery. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co.,
Inc., 1968.
Rosenfeld, Davis. Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century in
Europe. New York: Studio Publications, 1949.
Wynter, Harriet. Introduction to European Porcelain. New York:
T.Y. Crowell, 1972.
Austrian/German
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Meissen Figure Group.
Catalog # 76.381, Negative # 77-4144. Porcelain, manufactured c.
1740. Figure group "Turkish Gallant and Lady" with hussar,
modeled by Johan Joachim Kaendler. A Turkish man with a white robe
and a floral gown, standing; a seated woman with white headdress
offering a box of snuff; and a hussar with an ax and a sword, standing
behind the two; on an oval mound with applied flowers in polychrome.
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Adams, Len, and Yvonne Adams. Meissen Portrait Figures. London:
Barrie & Jenkins, 1987.
Berling, Karl, ed. Meissen China; an Illustrated History. Reprint
of 1911 edition by Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen. New York,
Dover Publications, 1972.
Clarke, T. H. Marcolini Meissen Figures, Groups and Vases: the Outline
Engravings (Contouren), 1785-1792, by J. Joachim Friedrich Elsasser.
London: Distributed by Thomas Heneage Art Books, 1988.
Ducret, Siegfried. German Porcelain and Faience. New York: Universe
Books, 1962.
Groger, Helmuth. Johan Joachim Kaendler. Dresden, Germany: W.
Jess, 1953.
Hayward, John F. Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period.
London: Rockliff Co., Ltd., 1952.
Honey, William B. Dresden China, An Introduction to the Study of
Meissen Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
Honey, William B. German Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber,
1967.
The McClellan Collection of German and Austrian Porcelain. Text
by George B. McClellan. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1946.
Morley-Fletcher, Hugo. Antique Porcelain in Color: Meissen.
New York: Doubleday and Co., 1971.
Pauls-Eisenbeiss, Erika. German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century.
The Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection. London: Barrie and Jenkins; New
York, NY: Antique Porcelain Company, 1972.
Poche, Emanuel. Bohemian Porcelain. Prague: Artia, 1957.
Post, A. and Thomas, T. Mettlacher Steinzeug, 1885-1905. Wheeling,
IL: Hans J. Ammelounx, 1975.
Ruckert, Rainer. Franz Anton Bustelli. Munich: Max Hirmer, 1963.
Savage, George. Eighteenth Century German Porcelain. New York:
The Macmillan Co., 1958.
Syz, Hans, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Rückert. Catalogue of
the Hans Syz Collection, Volume I, Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.
Ware, George W. German and Austrian Porcelain. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1964.
Danish
Hayden, Arthur. Royal Copenhagen Porcelain: Its History and Development
from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. London: T.F. Unwin,
1911.
Dutch
De Jonge, C.H. Delft Ceramics. New York: Praeger Publishers,
1970.
Knowles, W. Pitcairn. Dutch Pottery and Porcelain. London: B.T.
Batsford, 1913.
French

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Sevres Ecuelle (covered
soup bowl) and stand. Catalog # 75.195a, b, c, Negative # 76-13954.
Porcelain, manufactured c. 1774. Royal blue ground with gold border
decoration and white reserves containing polychrome flowers and fruits.
Blue ground has heavy gold design of floral sprigs and a gold eagle
on center of the stand. Both bowl and stand have two gold handles,
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Dauterman, Carl C. Sevres. New York: Walker and Co., 1969.
Dauterman, Carl C. Sevres Porcelain: Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth
Century. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
Dawson, Aileen. Eighteenth-century French Porcelain in the Ashmolean
Museum. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996.
_____. A Catalogue of French Porcelain in the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1994.
De Guillebon, Regine D. Porcelain of Paris, 1770-1850. New York:
Walker & Co., 1972.
Eriksen, Svend. The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon
Manor. Sevres Porcelain. London: National Trust, 1968.
The Frick Collection. The Frick Collection, v. 7. Porcelains:
Oriental and French. New York: The Frick Collection, 1974.
Giacomotti, Jeanne. French Faience. New York: Universe Books,
1963.
Honey, William B. French Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972.
Jacobson, Gertrude Tatnall. Haviland China: A Pattern Identification
Guide. Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1979.
Landais, Hubert. French Porcelain. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1961.
Lane, Arthur. French Faience. (rev. ed.) New York: Praeger,
1971.
Pinot de Villechenon, Marie Noëlle. Sèvres: Porcelain from the Sèvres
Museum, 1740 to the Present Day. London: Wappingers Falls, NY: Lund
Humphries ; distributed in the USA by Antique Collectors' Club, 1997.
Préaud, Tamara. Sèvres Porcelain. Washington, DC: Published
for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service by the
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
Savage, George. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain.
Greenford, Middlesex, England: Spring Books, 1969.
Schleiger, Arlene. Two Hundred Patterns of Haviland China. (3
Volumes). Omaha, Nebraska: Arlene Schleiger, 1955.
Travis, Nora. Haviland China: The Age of Elegance. Atglen, PA:
Schiffer Pub., 1997.
Young, Harriet. Grandmother's Haviland. Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead
Book Co., 1970.
Hungarian
Domanovsky, Gyorgy. Hungarian Pottery. New York: International
Publications Service, 1968.
Italian
Curnow, Celia. Italian Maiolica in the National Museums of Scotland.
Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1992.
Frothingham, Alice Wilson. See Spanish.
Hess, Catherine. Italian Maiolica: Catalogue of The Collections.
Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988.
_____.. Maiolica in the Making: the Gentili/Barnabei Archive.
Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and
the Humanities, 1999.
Lane, Arthur. Italian Porcelain with a note on Buen Retiro.
New York: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1955.
Poole, Julia. Italian Maiolica. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
_____. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1995.
Rackham, Bernard. Italian Maiolica. (2d ed.) London: Faber and
Faber, 1963.
Shinn, Deborah. Sixteenth-century Italian Maiolica: Selections from
the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener
Collection. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982.
Stazzi, Francesco. Italian Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.
Wilson, Timothy. Italian Maiolica. Oxford: Phaidon-Christie's
Ltd. in association with the Ashmolean Museum, 1989.
_____. Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance. London: Published
for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications,
1987.
Russian/Soviet
Agarkova, G. D. and Nataliya Petrova. 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain
Manufacture St. Petersburg: 1744-1994. Desertina, Switzerland: Lomonosov
Porcelain Manufacture, 1994.
Ross, Marvin C. Russian Porcelains. Norman, Oklahoma: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Shinn, Deborah Sampson. Revolution, Life, and Labor: Soviet Porcelains
(1918-1985). New York; Seattle: Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of
Design, Smithsonian Institution; in association with University of Washington
Press, 1992.
Spanish
Frothingham, Alice Wilson. Capidimonte and Buen Retiro Porcelains,
Period of Charles III. New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1955.
_____. Lustreware of Spain. New York: Hispanic Society of America,
1951.
Lane, Arthur. See Italian.
Prepared by the Division of Ceramics and Glass
National Museum of American History, in cooperation with Public Inquiry Services,
Smithsonian Institution
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