This Blessed Plot, This Earth
This beautifully designed and illustrated book celebrates the career of Jonathan Horne FSA, international authority on English pottery and for forty years a London dealer at the top of his field.
With over thirty essays the book covers a broad range of subjects by specialists from around the world including curators, academics and archaeologists. Subjects include the first pottery in James Fort, America; shipping containers for Atlantic ceramic cargoes; Delftware exports to the West Indies; recent archaeological discoveries in London; an 18th-century duke’s bill for creamware; delftware, stoneware and Jonathan’s Coffee-House; the 16th-century Rheinland stoneware industry in England and William Greatbatch revisited.
Contributors include David Gaimster, Aileen Dawson, Timothy Wilson, Janine Skerry, Leslie Grigsby, Ivor Noël Hume, Gaye Blake Roberts, Jan Daniël van Dam, Jacqueline Pearce, Robin Hildyard and Michael Archer.
Encompassing a broad range of new research this book is a lasting tribute to Jonathan Horne’s many services to English pottery, a subject to which his insight, warmth and scholarship has contributed so much.
Edited by Amanda Dunsmore
This Blessed Plot, This Earth: English Pottery Studies in Honour of Jonathan Horne
August 2011
255 pages, hardback
260 x 216 mm, 140 colour illustrations
ISBN: 978 1 907372 09 4In the press
"Horne would certainly have enjoyed this book of papers in his honour. As a publisher he would have approved its look and feel as much as its contents." —The Times
"An heroic task … an impressive result, which has been beautifully published and produced by PHP." —British Art Journal