Ars Ceramica

1997/1998, Number 14

(C)1997 by The Wedgwood Society of New York, ISSN 1043-3317

• President's Letter
• A Dwight Family Heirloom (pre-1685) and a Fake (pre-1887), Hugh Tait
• Wedgwood and Worlitz, Gaye Blake Roberts
• The "Choice" of Hercules and Homer: Two Wedgwood Designs by John Flaxman, William Keyse Rudolph
• The Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens at Winterthur Museum: A Noble Selection, Pat Halfpenny
• Some Recent Discoveries in Fairyland, Jeffrey Tulman
• Robert Browning, Julia Wedgwood, and the Neoclassical Style, Vincent F. Petronella
• Davenport Ceramics in America, F. A. Davenport
• Wedgwood's Swan Vases, Jessie McNab

On the cover: A large Wedgwood "Swan vase," tin and lead glazes on a white earthenware body, the central ovoid section in tones of orange and purplish blue-black, 1876 (or 1873), 54 (137.2 cm) h. This remarkable vase and a similar one were given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1995 and the two vases are now on display. Impressed marks WEDGWOOD, O, W, DDE (or DDB). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Gyora and Judith S. Novak in honor of David T. Siegel, 1995. (1995.288.2a-c). For more about these vases, see "Wedgwood's Swan Vases" on page 70.

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