Customer Reviews

Dictionary of Blue & White Printed Pottery 1780-1880, Vol. I

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The most comprehensive references on transferware pottery are basically boring lists: You use them to reference a specific item, and not much else.
This book is so much more.
It's a top reference work, but is also the sort of book you can put on the coffee table - or curl up with in bed for an absorbing couple of hours reading.
Highly recommended.

Very informative, but the vast majority of the photos are black and white! Not ideal. I would not have purchased the book had this been made known.

Books on transferware (blue and white) pottery are very hard to find. And it's even harder to find a good one, that has enough information to be useful.

This is a VERY nice reference book for transferware pottery. While not every pattern is pictured (an impossible feat considering how many different patterns there are), there are dozens and dozens of example pictures through out. Beautiful patterns - some of which I had never seen before. They also show numerous examples of the original painting or sketch or engraving next to the transferware pattern, which I found very interesting. Many makers/manufacturers marks and date stamps are covered also.

This book doesn't even attempt to assign monetary prices to the patterns, but as a reference book you can't beat it. Well worth the money!