Record #:

27834

Author(s):

Straube, Beverly A.

Abstract:

Archaeological excavation and research reveal new information on Virginia’s early potting industry. The wares of Virginia potters started to appear along eastern coastal shipping routes, suggesting a change in the marketing of pottery. Excavated earthenware show a more common German form and have been documented among the wares made by the Moravians in North Carolina in the eighteenth century.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 21 Issue 2, Winter 1995, p1-40, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pottery; Archaeology

Record #:

27835

Author(s):

Magid, Barbara H.

Abstract:

Archaeological excavation and research of the Tildon Easton pottery site in Alexandria, Virginia has enhanced the knowledge base in earthenware and stoneware through much of the nineteenth century. Research also provides evidence of competition for the Wilkes Street pottery, and a better understanding of the industry’s economics and operation in the eastern region.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 21 Issue 2, Winter 1995, p41-82, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pottery; Archaeology

Record #:

27836

Author(s):

Umstott, Charles E.

Abstract:

In the early nineteenth century, Petersburg, Virginia was a dominant source of good stoneware clay and widespread distribution of finished goods throughout the eastern region. Petersburg was also manufactured a unique style of pottery. Lowndes pottery produced distinct stoneware adorned with high-quality cobalt decoration and script signatures.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 21 Issue 2, Winter 1995, p83-97, il, por, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pottery; Design and ornaments

Record #:

27837

Author(s):

Russ, Kurt C.

Abstract:

A number of potters in the Tidewater region exported wares to North Carolina in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Virginia pottery were strongly influenced by the Germanic pottery tradition.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 21 Issue 2, Winter 1995, p93-138, il, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pottery

Record #:

27838

Author(s):

Stradling, J. Garrison

Abstract:

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina researched the history of the Southern Porcelain Company. The company was created in 1856 and utilized white clay from the Edgefield pottery district of South Carolina to produce a variety of wares. Most of its products were never marked, but some earthenware was marked “S.C.P.Co., Kaolin, S.C.”

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Winter 1996, p1-39, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pottery

Record #:

27839

Author(s):

Fuchs, Ronald W., II

Abstract:

The Elk Ridge Furnace was a significant example of the iron industry in eighteenth-century Maryland. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina researched the history of the furnace. Documents of the furnace and its maker, William Williams, offers insight into its history, workforce and colonial southern iron industry.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Winter 1996, p40-59, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Iron industry and trade

Record #:

27843

Author(s):

Sisum, Deborah L.

Abstract:

Cephas Thompson was one of Virginia’s most prolific portrait painters of the early nineteenth century. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina examined Thompson’s Memorandum of Portraits in which he recorded over five hundred portraits. The paintings reflect the changes in American society and offer early biographical records of the early Republic.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Summer 1997, p1-101, il, por, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Portraits--American; Painters

Record #:

27844

Author(s):

McPherson, Anne S.

Abstract:

During the first third of the nineteenth century, the sugar chest was a common piece of furniture among people of the upper and upper-middle class in parts of Tennessee and Kentucky. Sugar was safeguarded due to its high cost, relative scarcity and importance in entertainment customs. Sugar chests were also used in North Carolina, many of which were produced by John C. Burgner of Waynesville.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 23 Issue 2, Winter 1997, p1-65, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Furniture

Record #:

27848

Author(s):

Reinberger, Mark

Abstract:

Robert Wellford was the leading composition ornament maker during the Federal period, and the single supplier to North Carolina and southern states. His work constitutes one of the largest assemblages of neoclassical ornament and allegory in America. Motifs created by Wellford vary from purely ornamental arabesques and foliage to elaborate scenes drawn from history and mythology.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Summer 1998, p1-67, il, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Design and ornaments

Record #:

27849

Author(s):

Abstract:

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina organized the Index of Early Southern Artists and Artisans, which is published in five issues. The index contains every artist and artisan documented by MESDA since 1985 and their records of southern material culture. This issue covers artisans with the last names beginning with A through C.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Winter 1998, p1-202, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (Winston-Salem); Material culture

Record #:

27852

Author(s):

Abstract:

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina organized the Index of Early Southern Artists and Artisans, which is published in five issues. The index contains every artist and artisan documented by MESDA since 1985 and their records of southern material culture. This issue covers artisans with the last names beginning with D through H.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 25 Issue 1, Summer 1999, p1-186, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (Winston-Salem); Material culture

Record #:

27853

Author(s):

Abstract:

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina organized the Index of Early Southern Artists and Artisans, which is published in five issues. The index contains every artist and artisan documented by MESDA since 1985 and their records of southern material culture. This issue covers artisans with the last names beginning with I through O.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Winter 1999, p1-179, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (Winston-Salem); Material culture

Record #:

27854

Author(s):

Abstract:

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina organized the Index of Early Southern Artists and Artisans, which is published in five issues. The index contains every artist and artisan documented by MESDA since 1985 and their records of southern material culture. This issue covers artisans with the last names beginning with P through S.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 26 Issue 1, Summer 2000, p1-149, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (Winston-Salem); Material culture

Record #:

27855

Author(s):

Abstract:

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina organized the Index of Early Southern Artists and Artisans, which is published in five issues. The index contains every artist and artisan documented by MESDA since 1985 and their records of southern material culture. This issue covers artisans with the last names beginning with T through Z.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 26 Issue 2, Winter 2000, p1-138, il, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (Winston-Salem); Material culture

Record #:

27856

Author(s):

Niven, Penelope

Abstract:

Frank Horton established the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts in 1975 to disseminate research and collections by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This issue is a biography of Frank, his accomplishments, and contributions to the decorative arts.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Summer 2001, p1-151, il, por, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (Winston-Salem); Biography