The Division of Home and Community Life, Ceramics & Glass Collection is responsible for the Smithsonian's collections of ceramics made, used, and marketed in America from about 1600 to the present. Information about the collection or items in it can be found in the following works:

General

Minter-Dowd, Christine. Finders' Guide to Decorative Arts in the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984.

Specific Ceramics Collections

Gardner, Paul Vickers. Meissen and Other German Porcelain in the Alfred Duane Pell Collection. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1966 rev. ed.

Larsen, Ellouise Baker. American Historical Views on Staffordshire China. New York: Dover Publications, 1975, 3rd ed.

Miller, J. Jefferson II. 18^th-Century English Porcelain: A Brief Guide to the Collection in the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973.

Miller, J. Jefferson II. English Yellow-Glazed Earthenware. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.

Syz, Hans et al. Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection, Volume I: Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.

Watkins, Lura Woodside. Early New England Potters and Their Wares. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.

Prepared by the Collections of Ceramics and Glass,
Division of Home and Community Life, in cooperation with the
Public Inquiry Mail Service,
Smithsonian Institution

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