Don’t always trust the date you find in a pottery mark. A well-known mark, often found on porcelain clock cases for Ansonia clocks, says “Royal Bonn, 1755” in a shield. But the maker was Franz Anton ...

A professor in the United Kingdom has used a creative way to measure the dramatic, dark legacy of the Black Death in England: analyzing old pottery shards. The plague claimed millions of lives in the ...

Sophie Wilson’s 1690 collection of slipware reflects a variety of artistic and literary references. Sophie Wilson at her home and studio in Dorset, England. She called ceramics a “wonderfully dauby, ...

Centuries ago, on the hilltops of the modern-day United Kingdom, communities would trek to the highest points to build their homes. Called hillforts, these ancient fortifications were in prominent ...

Would you believe that one of the most prominent figures in American art pottery came from England? Frederick Hurten Rhead was born in England in 1880 and started his ceramics career by working with ...